Report to Carson Reclamation Authority
Tuesday, December 04, 2018
Consent
SUBJECT:
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RECEIVE AND FILE CAL COMPACT LANDFILL PROGRESS REPORT
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I. SUMMARY
After three and a half years of Carson Reclamation Authority ownership, this is a progress summary of the Cal Compact Landfill project. It includes some project landfill history; description of the environmental remedy, including the groundwater extraction system, the landfill liner, and the landfill gas collection system; a description of some of the various earlier development attempts; the Carson Marketplace development, the AIG EPP, the Tetra Tech contract; a full description of the insurance and risk management programs; the termination of the Tetra Tech contract and the AIG EPP and the establishment of the DTSC Enterprise Fund; the CALReUSE grant; the development of the phased development plan; the negotiations with Macerich, Simon, and other developers on the site; and, the current work under contract on the site.
II. RECOMMENDATION
Recommendation
1. RECEIVE AND FILE CAL COMPACT LANDFILL PROGRESS REPORT
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III. ALTERNATIVES
Take another action the Board deems appropriate.
IV. BACKGROUND
The CRA took title to the Site on May 18, 2015, as part of a transaction with Cardinal Cavalry, LLC, a partnership formed for the purpose of developing an NFL stadium on the site for the San Diego Chargers and the Oakland Raiders. Prior to the CRA's acquisition, the parcel was under private ownership with a developer seeking to implement the Boulevards at South Bay project, a mixed use project featuring retail, residential, and entertainment uses on the Site.
The CRA itself was created in February, 2015 in order to facilitate this transaction and to mitigate the City's potential environmental liability as the owner of a landfill.
Since 1968, when the former landfill closed, the Site has been studied and analyzed for its ability to be remediated and developed into productive land uses, as it repres...
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