U.S. Navy dissolves Hunters Point Shipyard citizens' comments just as toxic cleanup enters critical phase
06.17.09 | Sarah Phelan |SF Bay Guardian
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In February, Arc Ecology released a 133-report titled "Alternatives for Study" that recommended the removal of the Parcel E2 landfill and explored changes in land use arrangements in the current redevelopment proposal to avoid environmental impacts (see "Concrete Plans," Feb. 4). Unfortunately, they were largely ignored by the Mayor's Office of Economic and Workforce Development, which is working with Lennar on the public-private development deal.
Arc Ecology executive director Saul Bloom remains undaunted, recalling how 87 percent of voters citywide supported Proposition P, an advisory measure he wrote and that then-Sups. Ammiano, Leno, Michael Yaki, and the late Sue Bierman placed on the ballot in 1989 to establish community acceptance criteria for the shipyard, under federal toxic cleanup guidelines.
"The Navy had offered their opinion that voters in San Francisco, and especially in the Bayview, would accept a nonresidential industrial level cleanup for the shipyard because they were primarily interested in jobs," Bloom recalled. "We said that this was a mischaracterization and we'd go ahead and prove them wrong."
He believes the current struggle with the Navy over the RAB, and with the city and Lennar over Arc's alternatives, are "emblematic of the problem facing the Bayview with regard to accessing good information and being told the straight story on health and development issues."
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