On Nov. 3, a bike ride took me past this vacant parcel on Ferry Street in Albany, where a chemical manufacturing plant is being proposed.
The City of Albany’s planning division is reviewing a site plan for a new chemical manufacturing plant a Corvallis company intends to build at 2435 Ferry St. S.E.
Approval of the site plan is up to the city planning staff following a period set aside for public comment. Planner Liz Olmstead told me Wednesday that once the application is deemed complete, the city will notify neighboring property owners within 300 feet of the property lines.
A company called Valliscor LLC submitted the application for the site plan review on Nov. 4.
On its website the company says it “specializes in the commercial manufacture of high-value compounds containing the element fluorine — particularly materials that require production under specific requirements due to their regulated properties.”
The company now has its office and a manufacturing facility on the HP campus on Circle Boulevard in Corvallis. There, Valliscor is situated within the Advanced Technology and Manufacturing Institute (ATAMI).
The company was founded in 2012. Both the founders have PhD degrees in organic chemistry.
The Albany application covers two undeveloped tax lots totaling just under 13 acres and zoned for light industry on the east side of Ferry Street. The current owner is Pacific Cast Technologies Inc., Albany.
Valliscor wants the two tax lots redesignated to become three. On one of the new parcels, pretty much in the center of the entire property, it intends to construct a 16,000-square-foot building and a 15,000-square-foot covered chemical storage area.
The company says in its filing with the city that eventually the other parcels may be developed too. Then the entire site would “operate as a manufacturing campus with buildings in close proximity to each other, sharing centralized parking, loading areas and utilities.”
The company says its filing shows the application meets all the standards laid out in the Albany Development Code. That what’s the city’s review is intended to check. (hh)
It’s a light industrial area SURROUNDED BY HOUSING!!! Terrible to even be considered.
Per Wikipedia-,
“Fluorine is a chemical element; it has symbol F and atomic number 9. It is the lightest halogen[note 1] and exists at standard conditions as pale yellow diatomic gas. Fluorine is extremely reactive as it reacts with all other elements except for the light inert gases. It is highly toxic”.
Upwind of most of Albany
Extremely Reactive & Highly Toxic. What could possibly go wrong?