ANAHEIM : Final Vote on Plan for Redevelopment
A redevelopment plan that would give a controversial recycling center and junkyard permission to operate until 2013 without new permits faces a final City Council vote today.
The sweeping plan, which will guide the growth of commercial and industrial development in northeast Anaheim, won unanimous endorsement of the council when it was introduced Aug. 22, but the panel was bitterly divided over one part of the proposal.
Adams Steel, which is under court order to remove a 50,000-ton pile of potentially toxic waste that sits directly over a ground water basin, asked for a change in zoning that would exempt it from periodic permit renewal.
That was strongly opposed by Mayor Tom Daly, who stated that the city had spent more than $500,000 on legal fees in recent years battling Adams Steel over a series of alleged code violations. Daly was supported by Councilman Tom Tait.
But Councilmen Bob Zemel, Frank Feldhaus and Lou Lopez sided with the business.
Company President George Adams said the firm has so far removed 17,000 tons of the waste pile.
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