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Arcadia pauses Rogers Garage housing review after new contamination, oversight questions arise
Summary
City staff halted action on the Rogers Garage affordable housing application after discovery that the site appears on the state Cortese list and the Regional Water Board changed its view on potential wetland regulation, prompting calls from residents for a fuller environmental review and alternative sites.
Arcadia city staff opened a public hearing on June 18 to receive comment on the Rogers Garage affordable housing proposal but said no decision would be made after new environmental information emerged.
The council was told staff had discovered the project site appears on the state Cortese list of contaminated sites and that Regional Water Board staff had reversed an earlier position about whether a mapped wetland on the property would be subject to regulation. "We found some new information as we're going through the CEQA process and that's causing us to take a step back," Community Development staff member David Loya said. "CEQA is first and foremost a disclosure and discovery process." (CEQA refers to the California Environmental Quality Act.)
That change prompted about two hours of public comment, mostly from Bayside residents who live near the site and parents of children at Jacoby Creek School.…
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