2017 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2017 16:34:06 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Santa Clara (California ) City Place moves ahead
 
The latest Silicon Valley housing idea: On a landfill
Environmental watchdogs OK plan for 1,680 units at City Place

By RICHARD SCHEININ 
San Jose Mercury News (CA)
July 8, 2017 

SANTA CLARA - It’s not your typical site for a new housing development: a former landfill, containing an estimated 5.5 million tons of municipal waste dumped over a quarter century in the heart of this city.

But it’s looking more and more as if the Related Companies’ plan to build a $6.7 billion mixed-use complex with up to 1,680 units of housing across the street from Levi’s Stadium will come to fruition. The project represents the largest housing project ever proposed atop a landfill in the Bay Area, regulators say, and perhaps in the entire state.

Environmental overseers have accepted Related’s massive technical document, which includes elaborate safety systems to block the escape of combustible methane gas and other dangerous vapors, and to prevent groundwater contamination.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/07/08/the-latest-silicon-valley-housing-idea-on-a-landfill/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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