[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: San Francisco panels "approve Hunters Point shipyard report"

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Panels approve Hunters Point shipyard report

John Wildermuth
San Francisco Chronicle
June 4, 2010

Plans to turn the vacant Hunters Point shipyard into a new neighborhood 
for 24,500 people received an important boost Thursday night when San 
Francisco's planning and redevelopment commissions narrowly approved the 
project's hotly contested environmental impact report.

"This project has a long way to go, but this is a start," said Planning 
Commission President Ron Miguel. "And it's about time it got started."

While the Redevelopment Commission approved the report unanimously, the 
Planning Commission split 4-3, with Christina Olague, Kathrin Moore and 
Hisashi Sugaya opposed.

The long, contentious meeting pitted neighbor against neighbor as they 
argued over the future of the neighborhood. Concerns about the toxic 
waste that will be left underground at the shipyard and the 
environmental impact of the construction plan clashed with the city's 
promise of thousands of permanent and construction jobs, millions of 
dollars in community benefits and the revitalization of a long-abandoned 
part of the city.

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For the entire article, see 
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/06/04/BAR41DPLFF.DTL

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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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