Multi-million Dollar Downtown School Sits On Quake Fault

6 December 2002 - 11:00am

Smart-growth advocates have talked about "faulty" school siting, but now they can use that adjective literally.

"A $160 million high school that has never been finished because of soil gas problems also sits atop an earthquake fault that likely precludes use of two buildings, the school superintendent said...The new problem discovered at the downtown Belmont Learning Center site appeared to all but doom efforts to revive the project in its current form...State law says a school may not be built within 50 feet of an active fault."

Source: CNN, December 5, 2002
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Its very unsuitability for an urban center justifies its current usage as a suburban or ex-urban pattern.