[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Advocates want more housing at Alameda Point (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Advocates want city to consider more housing on Point

Michele Ellson
Alamedan (CA)
January 29, 2013

Housing advocates say they'd like the city to consider allowing the  
construction of more housing than what’s now on tap for Alameda  
Point, while members of a group that oversees the environmental  
cleanup there said they want the potential impacts of contaminants  
there to be explored.

Housing advocates told the Planning Board on Monday that they want  
the city to study the impacts of 4,500 new homes at the former Navy  
base, the same number the city's former master developer for the  
base, SunCal Companies, had proposed. Their comments were offered at  
a public hearing to craft the parameters of a state-mandated  
environmental study of traffic, noise and other impacts of  
development at the Point - and by extension, the realm of possibility  
for what can be built there without triggering another costly and  
time-consuming round of hearings and reports.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.thealamedan.org/news/advocates-want-city-consider-more- 
housing-point

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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