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Article: Homeowners and developers join forces to oppose larger landfills. (Special Report: Quarterly Real Estate)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- January 25, 1993
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Homeowners and developers fought on opposite sides through much of the 1980s, but the two have formed a rare alliance to oppose the proposed expansion of the Puente Hills landfill.
At issue, among many other questions, is whether the proposed expansion would reduce residential and commercial property values surrounding the landfill, which occupies a little over 1,300 acres in an unincorporated area of Los Angeles County's San Gabriel Valley.
The Hacienda Heights Improvement Association and RR&C Development Co., developers of the 110-acre Crossroads Business Park, contend that the landfill expansion would reduce property values in addition to polluting the air ...