Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Curtis Park Village Project

Curtis Park Village soil clean up
Toxic clean-up for the Curtis Park Village Project has picked up this year. The original plan for cleaning up all toxic soil was to have it taken by train to Utah and dumped  where it would not threaten any ones health and then replace it with clean soil from somewhere else. That does not appear to be the case anymore? When they first started the clean-up of the soil several years ago, railroad cars lined up next to the site filled with soil to be taken to Utah, what happen? In my observations over the last year, it  appears to be the same soil from the site but just moved around? I don’t see any soil cleaning equipment being used like what was used at the rail yards? At the rail yards, even though the soil is considered “clean” the state has mandated that all schools be built up off the ground by one floor and play areas be on top of other buildings. The state does not want to take any chances that a child could eat some dirt or breathe some dust while playing and then having the state liable for any sickness or illness linked to the soil. I wonder what the plan is for Curtis Park Village? Last I heard in July 2009, the project was stalled for over a year because Superfund clean-up costs exceeded the $4 million grated to the project in 2008 from Proposition 1C grants.
Curtis Park Village soil clean up







Project Background:
Prior to the proposal for the Curtis Park Village project, the project site was owned by Western Pacific Railroad (WPRR) and was used as a railyard and operations center. During the early 1900s, WPRR established the railyard for maintenance of steam locomotives and railcars, and in the 1950’s diesel engine repair and maintenance began at the proposed project location. Sothern Pacific Railroad acquired the WPRR in 1982, and discontinued maintenance yard operations at the Curtis Park Village site (Southern Pacific was subsequently acquired by the Union Pacific Railroad). Prior to discontinuing the railyard operations, the maintenance and refurbishing work conducted at the site involved the use of dangerous and toxic chemicals and substances. Cleanup procedures on the site started in 1986, and in the mid 1990s the California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) determined that the site was contaminated and more extensive clean up would be necessary.
Curtis Park Village soil clean up








In 2004, Union Pacific Railroad sold 72 acres of the railyard to the applicant (Curtis Park Village, LLC). The application for development of the Curtis Park Village project was submitted to the City of Sacramento in early 2004.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Petrovich is a low budget developer who builds big box stores. As one can see from his site plan, this is a big box design on the south end of the site...with some schmaltzy low budget homes on the north end to satisfy the schmucks in Curtis Park...

Because Sacramento is populated by the dregs of the architectural world...all the low balls in architecture roll to Sacramento...they and everybody else makes a big deal of hype over very bad and mediocre projects...because that is all they get in Sacratomato...

It ain't San Francisco but rather a very low budget untalented town...

congratulations

AB said...

I second the previous. Petrovich is an Ass!

Mark H. said...

Only a stupid f*ck like you would think that Curtis Park's full of schmucks. What's wrong, can't afford the rent? Go live in North Highlands. Pretty easy when your 'anonymous', huh smart guy?

Ryan said...

Fortunately for Petrovich, the bar is set pretty low. There's not much that *wouldn't* be an improvement on an large, semi-toxic swath of dirt, surrounded by a rusted fence and Prop 23 warnings. That said, we had been looking for houses in the area a couple weeks (ended up buying farther north in CP), and the long timeline of this construction made me think twice, especially since I work from home. I hope they're being good to their neighbors.

Anonymous said...

I've read where they are going to build a new light rail station and a crossing bridge from Sac City college that will take up part of this toxic area. This in turn will "cap" any pollutants and toxins thus covering up instead of cleaning up the problem. This is what developers also did in Rancho Cordova in the Gold River housing developement where C & C Auto wreckers used to be. Instead of clean-up they just paved the problem over.