[CPEO-BIF] "State agencies face lawsuit over approval of Richmond [California] housing development"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

State agencies face lawsuit over approval of Richmond housing development

By ANNIE SCIACCA
Bay Area News Group (CA)
August 5, 2021 

RICHMOND — A coalition of community and environmental groups is taking the state to court over its agencies’ approval of the cleanup plan for a mixed-used project with 4,000 homes atop a contaminated waterfront site in Richmond.

The lawsuit filed in Contra Costa County Superior Court argues that the state’s Department of Toxic Substances Control and the California Environmental Protection Agency violated California law by approving a purchase agreement for the developer without an adequate environmental review.

Developer Shopoff Realty Investments has plans to build 2,000 to 4,000 housing units and up to 50,000 square feet of retail space on the 86-acre site east of Marina Bay and west of Interstate 580 on the southeastern Richmond shoreline. The site was once owned by the Zeneca (now AstraZeneca) pharmaceutical company.

The proposed development and the cleanup plans for the site have long been a source of controversy. The site was a dumping ground for toxic materials for decades as a home to the Stauffer Chemical Company and then AstraZeneca.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/08/05/state-agencies-face-lawsuit-over-approval-of-richmond-housing-development

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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
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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