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Toxic chemicals sullied a Lincoln Heights site. Now, new housing is planned next to it

Toxic chemicals sullied a Lincoln Heights site. Now, new housing is planned next to it
Emily Alpert Reyes
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Patricia Camacho and Michael Henry Hayden stand in front of a Lincoln Heights lot where a 468-unit development is planned. The project has raised concerns among residents about toxic risks. (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times)
Nancy Smith remembered that children had called it the sick land the wedge of property alongside the 110 Freeway where a dry cleaning facility had laundered aprons and uniforms for decades across from a Lincoln Heights elementary school.
We were all up in arms about it because of the children getting sick, said Smith, who has lived in the northeast Los Angeles neighborhood for more than half a century. ....

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Developers want to build 4,000 homes on a toxic East Bay site. Activists want a full cleanup first

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Developers want to build 4,000 homes on a toxic East Bay site. Activists want a full cleanup first
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Top: A proposed housing project at the Zeneca site includes 4,000 units, a grocery store and 30 acres of parks and open space.Paul Kuroda / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Richmond business owner Sherry Padgett visits the site of a proposed residential development project that she opposes.Paul Chinn / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Barrels of soil cuttings from the 86-acre site.Paul Kuroda / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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A former business’ entry gate to an 86-acre property that is polluted with more than 100 chemicals in Richmond.Paul Kuroda / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less ....

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