Multi-million Dollar Downtown School Sits On Quake Fault

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

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December 6, 2002, 11:00 AM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"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."

Thanks to Evan Lowenstein

FULL STORY: Multi-million dollar high school straddles quake fault

Thursday, December 5, 2002 in CNN

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