[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "Treasure Island [CA] development plans moving forward after lawsuit rejected"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Treasure Island development plans moving forward after lawsuit rejected

By Steven T. Jones
San Francisco Bay Guardian (CA)
July 10, 2014


Construction on the first 1,000 of up to 8,000 new homes planned for  
Treasure Island could begin as soon as next year after the State  
Appeals Court this week rejected a challenge of the project’s  
environmental impact report by Citizens for a Sustainable Treasure  
Island, a grassroots group led by former supervisor Aaron Peskin.

The group challenged the project's unanimous 2006 approval by the  
Board of Supervisors after its terms were modified the next year by  
the developers, Wilson Meany and Lennar Urban, to increase the number  
of homes and decrease their affordability. The project Peskin helped  
approve was 6,000 homes, 30 percent of them affordable, but now it’s  
up to 8,000 homes, 25 percent affordable.

More recently, stories by the Center for Investigative Reporting/Bay  
Citizen, San Francisco Chronicle, and others have also found evidence  
of lingering radiological contamination on the island from its days  
as a US Navy base, something that Peskin told us should raise  
concerns about the project.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2014/07/10/treasure-island-development- 
plans-moving-forward-after-lawsuit-rejected

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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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