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Sunnyvale to take downtown parking garages from successor agency after county agreement on contamination liability

Sunnyvale City Council · October 29, 2025
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Summary

The City Council and the successor agency approved an agreement on Oct. 28 that transfers three downtown parking garages to the City and makes Sunnyvale responsible for ongoing environmental monitoring of a decades‑old PCE contamination plume beneath one garage block.

The City Council and the successor agency to the former Sunnyvale Redevelopment Agency adopted resolutions on Oct. 28 to approve a compensation agreement that allows the successor agency to transfer three downtown parking garages to the City.

Background: The garages were built or retained during earlier redevelopment projects and remained on successor‑agency books after the 2012 statewide dissolution of redevelopment agencies. Discussions with the county oversight board had stalled for years because the county sought future revenue sharing tied to private, contractually dedicated parking…

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