So "Mountain View Mayor Ken Rosenberg pointed out the property should be used to help address the community's need for parks, schools or affordable housing"? Isn't this the same mistake that Niagara Falls, NY made when they allowed "parks, schools, and housing" to be built on the Love Canal toxic waste site? Santayana famously said, and I paraphrase, "Those who fail to learn from the mistakes of their predecessors are destined to repeat them." This litany of mistakes is growing beyond merely alarming.

Question for MV Voice- why is it that almost every time there's a map in one of your Moffett - Superfund site articles, the map has incredibly low resolution and no detail as to the street names, etc.? I for one would like to see where my home is in relation to the article being presented. Why are your maps so unclear, can't be zoomed, etc.?

The city should demand that property owners completely cleanup all known toxic waste sites on their property before granting any building permits.

Why stop here? "Rosenberg and other Mountain View officials are worried that developing offices at Orion Park will worsen traffic in an area already slated for more congestion" I don't believe this for a minute. There is something else going on here.....

The images can be enlarged, and with decent resolution. Right click (or Control click, or command click) on the picture or image and open it in a new tab. Use Control + or Command + to enlarge.

Ok thank you. I am using my iPhone to read this, not a pc. Is there a way to get decent resolution on the utilized maps from an iPhone? Pinching and expanding doesn't work on this site as well as it usually does.

Help me out here. Am I missing something? From the map, it looks like Orion Park is well away from the contamination plume. The 5 ppb contour is 800 feet away. By the way, <5 ppb is OK to drink according to the EPA. Web Link So I would guess that up to 100 ppb or so is okay to build on.

Thanks for publishing the pictures, btw. Very helpful.

If this is an Army site then it is federal and not city, therefore the city probably can not stop what is going on and would not be required to issue building permits. It is funny that a city that approves massive new building for Google and other Tech companies now has concerns about traffic and wants housing and parks, my guess is the city wants the places that will generate the most revenue while trying to make the Army suck up the housing and parks that don't generate as much but are needed. Mountain View just wants more money while making someone else pay for the support layer.

All DOD military housing and property should be tested for Organochlorine Pesticide Contamination.

The why. www.basefamilyhousing.info

@Brian, please explain how Council's proposed 10,000 housing units in North Bayshore square with your theory.

Thank you Frank Vera, when my 3 children attended Mountain View schools we saw some serious health issues in "Base Kids", attended a funeral for a 2 year old who died of cancer. Maybe there was a common risk for these kids growing up on our MV base.

As a native resident of CA and a voting resident of Mountain View, I would like to express my appreciation for the Mayor representing my interests, and that of my community. The US government will do as they please with their land - but we locals, and our government representatives, should hold them to high standards.

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