[CPEO-BIF] Burlington, Vermont's South End

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Worry over toxins at South End brownfields shared by corporate interests

by Jess Wisloski 
VT DIgger (VT)
August 3, 2015

BURLINGTON – A small group of artists and residents met with city leaders last week to learn more about the challenges of developing contaminated sites along the Pine Street corridor.

Part of the city’s PlanBTV South End revitalization calls for rezoning and new construction in areas known as brownfields, former industrial land that contains soil that could release toxic substances if disturbed. The proposed area also includes the Pine Street Barge Canal, the city’s only EPA Superfund cleanup site.

While some residents who came out to meet with city planners last week are ambivalent about plans for new buildings and housing in the South End, what they learned was that some of the mammoth changes envisioned in PlanBTV South End would first require many delicate maneuvers.

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For the entire article, see
http://vtdigger.org/2015/08/03/worry-over-toxins-at-south-end-brownfields-trumped-by-corporate-interests/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street
Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
LSiegel@cpeo.org
http://www.cpeo.org




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