When voting to approve the Campus Bay development with 4,000 residential units on the AstraZeneca site, the outgoing Richmond City Council gave no consideration to updated sea
level rise data available from the San Francisco Bay Conservation and
Development Commission (BCDC). They also
failed to heed Cal EPA's more health-protective vapor intrusion standards
announced on February 14, 2020, which apply to the most dangerous and
widespread contaminants on this site. In
addition, the lame duck council members blatantly and arrogantly ignored the
residential and business community's near-unanimous 15-plus years of requests
for a full and complete cleanup of this site before returning this site to
use.
Due to the gross judgement
errors by the slim majority of the prior council, the Community’s ask to the
Richmond City Council is to reopen the Campus Bay EIR and do a complete
health-and-safety review, which includes at a minimum consideration of the
US-EPA TCE health risk standards revised in February 2020 and the global
warming sea level rise predictions which were doubled in January 2021.