[CPEO-BIF] "Related's CityPlace Santa Clara [California] heads in for final approval"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Related's CityPlace Santa Clara heads in for final approval
Here's what you need to know about $6.5 billion megaproject and remaining challenges


by Nathan Donato-Weinstein
Silicon Valley Business Journal (CA)
June 27, 2016


Almost exactly three years ago, Santa Clara disclosed a humdinger of a development idea: Leasing a closed city landfill just north of Levi’s Stadium to the Related Companies for a veritable new downtown that would include more than 9 million square feet of new construction.

Fast forward, and that unlikely vision for Silicon Valley’s largest-ever private development project is headed for a milestone: City Council approval.

On Tuesday, the council will consider signing off on thousands of pages of documents, including an environmental impact report, lease and development agreement and zoning changes. A green light paves the way for Related to start construction on the project’s first phase as early as the fall of 2017.

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At the same time, regulators have not yet signed off on key elements of Related’s unique building design, which involves building an enormous platform over the landfill and driving piles deep into the ground. Just this month, a skeptical state water agency suggested it wouldn’t allow any drinking water hookups on the site without more information; another entity hasn’t agreed to allow any housing on the part of the project that sits over landfill — a key part of true “mixed-use” projects.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2016/06/27/relateds-cityplace-santa-clara-heads-in-for-final.html

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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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