[CPEO-MEF] SF Supervisors Study Proposed Hunters Point Bridge

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SF Supervisors Study Proposed Hunters Point Bridge
11/12/02
San Francisco supervisors today are set to consider the early stage of a
$110-plus million project to connect Hunters Point to U.S. Highway 101
with a new bridge, opening a direct route to redevelopment.

Proponents of the South Basin Bridge project, whose environmental-review
stage funding is on the supervisors' agenda this week, say the bridge
will be critical to Phase II at the demilitarized shipyard so that up to
10,000 jobs can be created in the portion known as Parcel D to ease
economic hardship in the surrounding community.

Several options for traversing the South Basin between Candlestick and
Hunters points will be evaluated in a process that city planners have
predicted will be "very complicated because it's in a wetland area near
a contaminated area.''

A representative of the city's Department of Public Works also notes
that the initial federal grant of roughly $9.4 million, to be paired
with San Francisco redevelopment funds of a little more than $2.3
million, must be accepted no later than next fall or the funds would be
lost. The grant was awarded in 1998 by the U.S. Congress under the
Federal Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century.

Tina Olson, of the DPW, points out the designated Hunters Point
developer Lennar BVHP has, through the residentially oriented Phase I
work at the northern end of the Bay-front peninsula, already contributed
$4 million toward the city's cost in getting the 500-acre parcel ready
for civilian reuse and can be expected to continue providing funding to
the Redevelopment Agency.

In her report to the Board of Supervisors on the project, she says the
U.S. Navy is expected to transfer the property to San Francisco during
the first half of 2003, following years of controversy over toxic
cleanup needed there.

This article can be viewed at:
http://www.bayinsider.com/partners/ktvu/news/2002/11/12_bridge.html

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