[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "Judge orders all Richmond City Council members to answer allegations that they undermined Point Molate [CA}project"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Judge orders all Richmond City Council members to answer allegations that they undermined Point Molate project

By ANNIE SCIACCA
Bay Area News Group (CA)
November 24, 2021 

In an unusual move, a federal judge has ordered all seven Richmond City Council members to appear in court on Dec. 1 to answer allegations that they tried to sabotage a settlement agreement by hindering a developer’s efforts to redevelop Point Molate, despite having previously approved the mixed-use project.

It is the latest wrinkle in the years-long effort to redevelop the 193-acre parcel 1.5 miles north of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, which until 1995 was used as a U.S. Navy fuel storage and transfer facility.

The Guidiville Rancheria of California tribe and Upstream Point Molate LLC wanted to build a casino at the site several years ago but the City Council rejected that plan. The tribe and developer subsequently sued the city, alleging the council did not have legal grounds to deny the project that they paid the city millions of dollars to negotiate, but in 2018 a federal judge upheld the decision.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/11/24/judge-orders-all-richmond-city-council-members-to-answer-allegations-that-they-undermined-point-molate-projectify-controversial-point-molate-development

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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