Contested Waterside restoration plan continued after multi-hour hearing; residents raise traffic, dust and landfill concerns

After nearly eight hours of testimony and more than a dozen expert and public speakers, commissioners continued final site-plan consideration of the Waterside/Waterside Phase 1 restoration project to July 28 to allow staff and applicants to supply missing materials and for the board to review public records and monitoring plans. Opponents argued the project functions as a mine and landfill; applicant said extensive testing found soils were "depleted" not contaminated and described mitigation and monitoring.