Las Ventanas by Taylor Morrison at Portola Springs

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OK, let's not focus on the small difference in distance between Stonegate/PS and the landfill.  Still, would you choose to disregard the potential effects on your family's health and live close a landfill? If so, please share your reasoning.  Thanks.
 
From what I have read online, any danger the landfill may cause seems to be far less than the more general problem with the air quality around here.  On days that I can barely see the mountains from UCI through the haze and smog, I have to wonder what that junk is doing to me.
 
Usually freeways get wider with population growth, so what happens when the 133 widens the 133 or the govt. exercises eminent domain powers on land adjacent to the freeway? 

I'm on a slippery slope today.


 
We are concerned about the landfill and it is the primary reason we are holding back from Portola Spring and Stonegate.  We do not mind the "remoteness" of Portola (quite like it, actually) and like that Stonegate homes are within walking distance to the elementary school.  However, we couldn't get pass the landfill issue, particularly after we saw on the google map the size of the landfill - it looks as large as the entire Portola development.
 
What about the folks that live in quail hill or laguna altura?  The 405 has way more cars during rush hour than the toll roads.
 
jyeh74 said:
What about the folks that live in quail hill or laguna altura?  The 405 has way more cars during rush hour than the toll roads.
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Nothing negative applies to Quail Hill or Laguna Altura, those areas are special.
 
qwerty said:
jyeh74 said:
What about the folks that live in quail hill or laguna altura?  The 405 has way more cars during rush hour than the toll roads.
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Nothing negative applies to Quail Hill or Laguna Altura, those areas are special.
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Add Turtle Ridge, Turtle Rock, Westpark 1 and 2, Woodbury, and Woodbury East, all very special.
 
USCTrojanCPA said:
irvinehomeowner said:
Especially Turtle Ridge.
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Even though it is within 2 miles of a big landfill and the 73?
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I always wondered why no one ever complained about Turtle Ridge's proxmity to the 73 toll road.  There's a belt of houses there are sitting right on top of it too, just like PS.  But since it's south of the 405, then its special.
 
annabanana said:
USCTrojanCPA said:
irvinehomeowner said:
Especially Turtle Ridge.
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Even though it is within 2 miles of a big landfill and the 73?
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I always wondered why no one ever complained about Turtle Ridge's proxmity to the 73 toll road.  There's a belt of houses there are sitting right on top of it too, just like PS.  But since it's south of the 405, then its special.
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If they named PS Turtle Springs, put up a few gates and zoned it to University High, no one would even notice the toll road or landfill... and Las Ventanas would be $200k more.
 
ps99472 said:
USCTrojanCPA said:
irvinehomeowner said:
Especially Turtle Ridge.
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Even though it is within 2 miles of a big landfill and the 73?
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Where's the landfill?  Is it active?
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It's that large football shaped piece of land between the South of the 73 and North of the San Joaquin Reservoir.  It is not active but they have it vented to release the methane gas. 
 
I thought there was still an active landfill down there... although it could be closed... haven't dumped bodies... err.... trash there in a while.
 
irvinehomeowner said:
I thought there was still an active landfill down there... although it could be closed... haven't dumped bodies... err.... trash there in a while.
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I want to say they closed it in the late 90s or early 2000s, not sure though. 
 
This is an active landfill: http://www.ocgov.com/portal/site/ocgov/menuitem.02b739dec30413a69add603d100000f7/?vgnextoid=a43cb0d5a553a110VgnVCM1000005b00610aRCRD&vgnextchannel=0cb245f36dce8110VgnVCM1000005b00610aRCRD&vgnextfmt=default

"The landfill opened in 1990 and is scheduled to close in approximately 2053."
 
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