The City of Concord recently released the revised Draft Environmental Impact (DEIR) report for the Community Reuse Project, the proposed reuse plan for the Concord Naval Weapons Station. The DEIR is available for a 45-day review period.
The revised DEIR addresses the Preferred Alternative (Clustered Villages) as well as the Concentration and Conservation Alternative and the No Project Alternative.
The Concord City Council unanimously approved the Clustered Villages alternative as the Preferred Reuse Plan Alternative in January 2009.
The Contra Costa Times is reporting that the DEIR finds proposed redevelopment under any of the three studied development alternatives would result in significant impacts to traffic and air quality, even afer efforts to mitigate various impacts.
The proposed redevelopment would result in up to 12,272 housing units, 28,800 residents, 26,530 jobs, as well as a substantial amount of open space on the former U.S. Naval Weapons Station, next to the North Concord BART station.
Weapons Station development would snarl traffic, report says – ContraCostaTimes.com.