[CPEO-BIF] Richmond, California approve Astra-Zeneca site housing development

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Richmond council greenlights plans for housing development on toxic site

by Sarah Ravani 
San Francisco Chronicle (CA)
December 15, 2020

The Richmond City Council gave a developer permission Tuesday to move forward with plans to partially clean a toxic site polluted with more than 100 chemicals and build up to 4,000 residential units and a 20,000-square-foot grocery store.

The vote - four yes votes and two no votes - resulted in the final passage of an ordinance permitting the project at 1400 S. 47th Street - and eliminated what many activists saw as a last chance to prevent the site’s development.

The 86-acre property known as the Zeneca site, just east of Marina Bay and west of Interstate 580, has undergone cleanup for years but critics worry danger to future residents will remain.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Richmond-council-greenlights-plans-for-housing-15806475.php

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