[CPEO-IRF] Hunters Point (San Francisco) dirty development?

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Dirty development vs. environmental protection

Mayor Newsom plans housing and playground for most radioactive parts of
HP Shipyard

A column by by Ahimsa Porter Sumchai, M.D.
San Francisco Bay View
November 30, 2005

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom announced a new plan during his recent
State of the City address: His "Livable City" initiative, he said, is an
"environmental imperative" and a "green leap forward in the next five
years" that promises to make San Francisco a leader in green building
and technology and allocates funds to plant trees along major central
and west side thoroughfares, Van Ness and 19th Avenue.

With typical pomp and circumstance, Newsom's excessive pride, arrogance
and overconfidence thinly veil an administration policy for southeast
and eastern neighborhoods that aggressively champions dirty development
? building houses on land cleaned of toxic contamination not to
residential standards but to lower industrial standards.

...

For the entire column, see
http://www.sfbayview.com/113005/dirty113005.shtml
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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org
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