[CPEO-IRF] Southeast San Francisco

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

S.F.'S GRAND PLAN FOR 49ERS
STADIUM PROPOSAL: Thousands of homes plus shops and parks on the city's 
southeast shore

Patrick Hoge
San Francisco Chronicle
March 27, 2007

The neglected areas of San Francisco's southeast shore would be remade 
into a destination spot with a new football stadium, hundreds of acres 
of open space and thousands of new homes under an ambitious city 
proposal that rivals plans for Treasure Island and Mission Bay.

Mayor Gavin Newsom says his plan for the 790-acre site would not require 
public funding for a stadium at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, a 
toxic site that the Navy is cleaning up. The plan also calls for a new 
look for Candlestick Point, where the 49ers' current stadium would be 
bulldozed to make way for high-rise homes, retail shops and parks.

...

The 49ers are skeptical that the cleanup of the 500-acre former shipyard 
can be done expeditiously.

But Navy and Environmental Protection Agency officials say that much of 
the hardest work has already been done, and top Navy brass committed 
this month to trying to meet the city's schedule for a phased transfer 
of the shipyard, with the 27-acre parcel for the stadium conveyed first, 
by the summer of 2009, to allow for stadium construction.

...

For the entire article, see
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/03/27/MNGQ5OSHBO1.DTL

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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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