[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Hunters Point (San Francisco, CA) ballot measures

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Prop. G wins big; Prop. F loses big

Robert Selna, Heather Knight
San Francisco Chronicle
June 4, 2008


(06-03) 23:49 PDT -- San Francisco voters overwhelmingly approved 
Proposition G on Tuesday, endorsing plans for a major housing and 
commercial development at the Hunters Point Shipyard and Candlestick 
Point and also keeping alive hope of holding on to the 49ers football team.

Mayor Gavin Newsom's administration and executives with developer Lennar 
Corp. cheered the apparent victory as well as the parallel defeat of a 
measure that would have required half of the new homes to be affordable 
to low- and moderate-income residents.

Proposition F supporters had argued that their measure would address the 
housing needs in the poor and crime-ridden neighborhood, but developers 
said it was a poison pill that would have made the huge project 
economically infeasible.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/03/BAR51107QK.DTL&tsp=1

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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