Nonprofit Says City Took Revenge for Airing Views
By JOHN UPTON
Bay Citizen/New York Times
December 30, 2010
Saul Bloom is preparing to pack up roomfuls of overstuffed binders in
the offices of the small nonprofit environmental organization that he
helped form almost 30 years ago. Arc Ecology, whose headquarters in a
faded white storefront are protected by metal bars in the Bayview
neighborhood's crime-ridden Third Street commercial district, must move
to a more affordable location after losing a key contract with the San
Francisco Redevelopment Agency.
The loss in September of the contract - which never exceeded several
hundred thousand dollars a year - comes after Arc's opposition to key
elements of the sprawling Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard redevelopment
plan that was passed by the Board of Supervisors in August.
Over the last eight years, Arc has analyzed the health and environmental
impacts of the project. It has also taken some strong advocacy
positions, opposing the plan's transfer and subsequent development of
state-owned parkland and the construction of a bridge over sensitive
wetlands.
Documents obtained by The Bay Citizen raise questions about the
assessment process that led to another group's being awarded the
environmental information services contract, and which also highlight
the influential role that Mayor Gavin Newsom's administration played in
rejecting Arc Ecology's bid.
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For the entire article, see
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/31/us/31bcarc.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=nonprofit%20says%20city&st=cse
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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
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