[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "Judge's ruling a win for Treasure Island (CA) development"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Judge's ruling a win for Treasure Island development despite  
radioactive material on island
Condominium project moves forward despite radiation cleanup concerns

By KATHARINE MIESZKOWSKI and MATT SMITH
Bay Citizen (CA)
December 19, 2012


A new Navy report says Treasure Island, shown here in 1957, was  
ground zero for repairing, scrapping, recycling and incinerating  
material from ships that might have absorbed radiation from atomic  
bomb tests in the Pacific.

Plans to build an 8,000-unit condominium community on the former  
Treasure Island Naval Station have moved closer to reality following  
a judge’s rejection of a suit claiming the developers had not  
adequately studied the project’s potential environmental impact.

"We are pleased to have this challenge behind us," said Kofi Bonner,  
president of homebuilder Lennar Urban, a developer of the project.

In June 2011, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved the  
project, which will also include office space, parks and hotels.  
Superior Court Judge Teri L. Jackson ruled on Friday that the  
project’s environmental impact report "provides sufficient analysis  
to intelligently consider the environmental consequences."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.baycitizen.org/housing/story/judges-ruling-win-treasure- 
island/



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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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