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Neighbors press council over development plans for contaminated 14‑acre site on Kilmer Street
Summary
Residents and the Friends of Ralston Creek Neighborhoods urged the council to require cleanup, change zoning and reject an RV storage proposal for a 14‑acre former landfill at 6800 Kilmer, citing methane plumes and geotechnical warnings.
Multiple residents and members of Friends of Ralston Creek Neighborhoods urged the City Council on Sept. 16 to oppose or condition development of a 14‑acre parcel on Kilmer Street that former speakers described as an unremediated landfill with a methane plume and longstanding subsurface instability.
Karen Gerbache, speaking for Friends of Ralston Creek Neighborhoods, said the site at 6800 Kilmer has been a contaminated landfill for almost a century and that prior geotechnical reports from 1982 and 1992 warned against development without full cleanup. She said the current…
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