McKinley Elementary has designs to modernize its campus. But plans are being delayed, and costs are rising since dangerous vapors were found in the soil.
For years, school district officials had grand designs to revamp the campus of McKinley Elementary in Santa Monica. The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District intended to build a two-story building with eight state-of-the-art classrooms and a modernized front office. The project had already been funded by a previous bond measure and splashy renderings were publicized by district staff.
State regulators, they argue, rarely agree to test the properties surrounding contaminated dry-cleaning facilities to determine the risk to nearby homes, schools and businesses. In Los Angeles' Lincoln Heights neighborhood, residents have long expressed concern about the former site of Welch's Uniform Facility, which was once advertised as America's largest industrial dry cleaners.
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