[CPEO-BIF] Affordable housing plan at Overton factory site, South Haven, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

South Haven residents express concern over Overton site contamination

By BECKY KARK
South Haven Tribune (MI)
October 10, 2021

Since acquiring the former Overton factory site in 2015, South Haven officials anticipated that environmental contamination on the property would need to be cleaned in order for residential redevelopment to begin.

However, a handful of residents have recently come forward to voice their concerns about the decontamination process as developers plan to start building a housing complex on the 6-acre site.

At previous meetings, the group of residents have questioned the three-story height of the proposed apartment complex, the density of apartment units, whether there is enough onsite parking, and if the complex addresses affordable housing for the “missing middle.”

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For the entire article, see
https://www.heraldpalladium.com/southhaventribune/localnews/south-haven-residents-express-concern-over-overton-site-contamination/article_299a5a96-f59d-541e-805c-93afa252e40a.html

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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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