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San Francisco Bay: Huge development project on Redwood City salt site suffers major setback

San Jose Mercury News, March 20, 2015

by Paul Rogers

REDWOOD CITY -- A developer's long-running plans to build thousands of bayfront homes on Cargill Salt's lands -- the largest proposed development along San Francisco Bay in 50 years -- have hit a significant, and possibly fatal, setback.

After several years of behind-the-scenes battles, this newspaper has learned, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has taken the rare step of wresting control of the most important decision over the project's fate from the Army Corps of Engineers.

The question: whether the 1,478-acre site east of Highway 101 is bound by the Clean Water Act, which could strictly limit development, or whether it is dry land that can be converted to a huge new community.

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