[CPEO-BIF] Sunnyvale, California developer's hunger strike is about vapor barriers

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Silicon Valley developer vows hunger strike ‘until death’ if city won’t let him build
Homebuilder says he won’t eat until Sunnyvale says he can resume building

By MARISA KENDALL 
Bay Area News Group (CA)
February 10, 2023

SUNNYVALE — A home developer is taking an unusual and dramatic stand after the city halted work on his construction project. He’s on a hunger strike — and he says he won’t eat until his crews can get back to work.

Navneet Aron, founder and CEO of Aron Developers, says he hasn’t eaten since last Friday morning. He has spent every weekday since then camped out in City Hall with a sign proclaiming, “On hunger strike until death!”

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At issue in Aron’s case is a sheet of plastic, less than an inch thick, installed beneath the foundation of his townhomes. The plastic, called a vapor barrier, is designed to mitigate health risks. It prevents toxins in the soil from rising as vapor through the foundation and into the home, potentially impacting the residents. Aron installed those barriers, but he failed to get the county’s Department of Environmental Health to sign off before he did so.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/02/08/silicon-valley-developer-goes-on-hunger-strike-to-protest-construction-stop

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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
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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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