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Toxic substances can often be found embedded in that empty lot, like this one in East Oakland. With the elimination of redevelopment in California, cleaning them up and developing them has become more risky, and more difficult.

Oakland to host workshop on redevelopment of toxic land

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With California's powerful redevelopment agencies and their corresponding powers now either extinct or on the fence, Oakland and other cities are facing a new problem: how to make use of toxic lands within their jurisdiction.