[CPEO-IRF] San Francisco reviews Treasure Island plan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

SAN FRANCISCO
Treasure Island's redevelopment plan faces 'biggest step'

Robert Selna
San Francisco Chronicle (CA)
December 6, 2006

A proposal to transform Treasure Island and its neighbor, Yerba Buena 
Island, into an environmentally friendly development with 13,500 new 
residents, will come under closer scrutiny Wednesday when it is 
presented to two Board of Supervisors committees.

The development plan calls for a $1.2 billion investment of private and 
public funds. The money would be spent to clean up pollution left behind 
on the former Navy base in the bay, make the 365-acre island seismically 
safe, and to build 6,000 "green" homes, a new ferry terminal and nearly 
300 acres of parks and other open space.

"This hearing is the single biggest step in a detailed process that has 
been in the planning stages for more than four years," said Jack Sylvan, 
an aide to Mayor Gavin Newsom working on the redevelopment project. 
"We're very proud of a plan that we've thought long and hard about and 
we think achieves a balance taking into consideration a wide range of 
issues."

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For the entire article, see
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/12/06/ISLANDS.TMP

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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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