[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Mixed ruling on Hunters Point Shipyard (CA) redevelopment

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hunters Point redevelopment given OK to progress

John Coté
San Francisco Chronicle
July 12, 2011

A San Francisco judge has tossed out most of a legal challenge to the  
controversial plan to convert the shuttered Hunters Point Naval  
Shipyard and nearby Candlestick Point into a new neighborhood with  
more than 10,500 homes, clearing the way for work to begin on the  
project.

Superior Court Judge Ernest Goldsmith, in a 37-page ruling made  
public Monday, found that the environmental review for the mega- 
project was adequate in all regards except one: the early transfer of  
some parcels of the shipyard.

Developers working with the city had hoped to take over two parcels  
before the Navy had finished cleaning them up to finish the  
remediation themselves and start construction more efficiently. Now  
their timetable will be slightly delayed.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/07/12/ 
BA551K9969.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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