[CPEO-MEF] "A plan for Hunters Point"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

A plan for Hunters Point

Editorial
San Francisco Chronicle
January 2, 2005

AFTER 30 years of planning setbacks, environmental impasses and much 
debate about how it will benefit local residents, it finally appears 
that the almost mythical notion of developing the Hunters Point Naval 
Shipyard is on the verge of becoming reality.

With the San Francisco Redevelopment Commission voting to take over a 
portion of the 500-acre yard from the Navy, and city supervisors 
endorsing the construction plans, the so called Phase One project on 
Parcel A is scheduled to begin in March.

Under the plan, construction on Parcel A -- 88 acres of rolling hilltops 
with sweeping bay vistas -- will include 1,600 housing units. Based on 
an income-related formula, about 30 percent of homes will be deemed as 
affordable, presumably meaning they will be within the financial reach 
of the modest wage-earners who live nearby.

In addition, construction will create as many as 600 new jobs. Fifty 
percent of them are promised to city residents, focusing on hiring from 
the immediate neighborhood, where double-digit joblessness has persisted 
for more than two decades.

…

For the entire editorial, see
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/01/02/EDG229H4D51.DTL 



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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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