[CPEO-BIF] Whittaker-Bermite (Santa Clarita, California) settlement

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Land deal builds dream
City: Court finds settlement 'fair' between Santa Clarita and company 
that owns Whittaker-Bermite

By Jim Holt
Santa Clarita Valley Signal (CA)
November 29, 2010

Close to a thousand acres in the heart of the Santa Clarita Valley are 
still uninhabitable - the soil still contaminated with traces of 
explosive material and the water still dirty with perchlorate. But city 
planners are happy today over a court settlement that will save them 
about $5 million in the long process to, one day, make it fit to live on.

Last week, an Arizona bankruptcy court endorsed a settlement agreement 
reached between the city of Santa Clarita and RFI, the bankrupt company 
that owns the land.

...

The agreement, and the dispute that sparked it, involves two relatively 
small pieces of the Whittaker-Bermite property - the parking lot at the 
Metrolink Station on Soledad Canyon Road and an 8-acre stretch of land 
along Golden Valley Road near Center Pointe.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.the-signal.com/section/36/article/37243/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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