[CPEO-BIF] How Southside Village (Asheville, North Carolina) got built

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

An old plant, tainted land, and worried homeowners

By MITCH WEISS and MICHAEL BIESECKER
Associated Press
December 24, 2014

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) - Developer Richard Green had nearly everything  
in place to build upscale homes on the heavily polluted land next to  
an old electronic components plant in the mountains outside  
Asheville. All he needed was a permit.

So when the local board of adjustment asked whether the site had  
hazardous materials, Green said there was only a slight level of the  
cancer-causing industrial solvent trichloroethylene, or TCE, below  
the factory. He then said he had a letter from state environmental  
regulators saying they were OK with the construction plans. They say  
they weren't.

Another developer, Stanley Greenberg, told the board that federal  
environmental regulators also had given a green light to build. They  
say they hadn't.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/nation-and-world/an-old-plant-tainted- 
land-and-worried-homeowners_71790365

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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
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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