Critically Speaking: Put a lid on it?
Looking over an 'engineered cap' and concerns over toxins at a proposed Long Beach storage facility.
It’s not uncommon for resident groups to oppose new developments in their part of town. You’re probably familiar with the term “NIMBY” (Not In My Backyard) but not all opposition is borne purely out of resistance to change.
The nonprofit community group Riverpark Coalition has been fighting a development along the Los Angeles Riverbed just north of the 405 Freeway for years where a developer has proposed to turn a former golf facility, which had served for decades as an oil wastewater site, into a storage facility.
