[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "State court rules in favor of Treasure Island [CA] developers"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

State court rules in favor of Treasure Island developers, hurdle  
cleared for 8,000 homes


by Blanca Torres
San Francisco Business Times (CA)
July 7, 2014

The developers behind the massive rebuild of Treasure Island in San  
Francisco cleared another hurdle to starting construction on the  
8,000-home development on the man-made island.

A state Appeals Court upheld a lower court’s ruling that an  
Environmental Impact Report approved by San Francisco is adequate.

A group called Citizens for a Sustainable Treasure Island, led by  
former San Francisco supervisor Aaron Peskin, sued after city  
officials approved the EIR and the project in 2011. In December of  
2012, a lower court affirmed the EIR and the citizens’ group appealed  
that decision.

The project, proposed by a partnership between Lennar Corp. and  
Wilson Meany, aims to add thousands of new housing units along with  
retail, hotel and office space in addition to renovating historic  
buildings and creating 300 acres of open space.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2014/07/treasure-island- 
lennar-wilson-meany-lawsuit-s-f.html

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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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