West Covina : BKK Building Ban Weighed
The City Council has directed its staff to consider changing the city’s general plan to prevent the construction of homes near a portion of the BKK landfill where harmful vinyl chloride emissions were detected in 1981. The plan now allows new homes within 2,000 feet of the area.
A two-year moratorium on residential construction in the area around the dump expires today, and the council wants to determine the future of two large properties near what was the state’s main hazardous waste site from 1980 to 1984.
Although monitoring has shown the site is not hazardous now, the staff recommended two options for the tracts at the north and south ends of the property. One would change the zoning from residential to other uses, possibly office buildings. The other would redraw the boundaries on the northern lot to allow homes on half-acre lots instead of the current 1-acre minimum. The remaining property near the dump could be open space.
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