[CPEO-BIF] Terminal One development, Richmond, California, terminated

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Nine years of controversy, hundreds of planned East Bay housing units—and now, nothing
Why Richmond will take a $500,000 hit to get out of waterfront property development

By KATIE LAUER 
Bay Area News Group
February 8, 2023

RICHMOND — A 14-acre former port terminal in the Point Richmond neighborhood will remain vacant, neglected and fenced off behind barbed wire for the foreseeable future after an upscale housing development nearly a decade in the making was shot down.

The Terminal One development — sandwiched between the Miller/Knox Regional Shoreline and Richmond Yacht Club near Brickyard Cove — was poised to transform the dilapidated, lead-contaminated property into 92 single-family detached residences, 62 duplexes and 30 junior accessory dwelling units.

But after more than five hours of discussion late Tuesday night, the Richmond City Council voted 5-1-1 to scrap the deal, require the property at 1500 Dornan Drive to be deeded back to the city, and return a $500,000 deposit for the land’s sale to the developer. Mayor Eduardo Martinez voted no, and Councilmember Melvin Willis was absent.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/02/08/nine-years-of-controversy-hundreds-of-planned-east-bay-housing-units-and-now-nothing

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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