2013 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 08:24:40 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Jordan Downs, Watts, Los Angeles, California
 
L.A. gives final OK to 'urban village' as Jordan Downs replacement
The mixed-use project in Watts calls for up to 1,800 stylish apartments, as well as chain stores, park and garden. The size of the project depends on government grants.


By Jessica Garrison
Los Angeles Times
August 14, 2013

The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to create an "urban village" of shops, town homes and a park and gardens to replace Jordan Downs, the notorious Watts housing project.

The unanimous vote gave final approval to a series of land use and planning laws years in the making. The move clears the way for an up to $1-billion transformation of one of the city's most poverty- stricken and violent areas.

The idea is to turn the often-dangerous housing development of 700 derelict units into a mixed-income community of up to 1,800 stylish new apartments, along with chain stores and new streetscapes - all designed to attract higher-income people to move into the area and live alongside some of the city's poorest.

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For the entire article, see
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/aug/14/local/la-me-jordan- downs-20130815

For a fact sheet about the proposed cleanup on a portion of this site, go to http://www.envirostor.dtsc.ca.gov/regulators/deliverable_documents/ 4498248040/HACLA%20Community%20Notice%20FINAL%20080213.pdf

I believe that vapor intrusion has been ruled out improperly at this site. - LS

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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