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Blocking the bridge
Suit over Lennar EIR could force changes in bridge on Yosemite Slough
San Francisco Bay Guardian
07 September 2025 | Sarah Phelan

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The Sierra Club and Golden Gate Audubon Society have sued to block the final environmental impact report on the Lennar Corp. redevelopment project, a move that could force reconsideration of a bridge over Yosemite Slough.

The suit against the city, Board of Supervisors, and Redevelopment Agency charges that the final EIR for Lennar's Candlestick Point-Hunters Point Shipyard project was inadequate, in part because it didn't consider all the impacts of the bridge or look properly at alternatives.

The move comes as no big surprise: these environmental groups vowed to file a suit within 30 days of the city's August certification of the project EIR. But advocates hope it will lead to a change in the proposal.

Arthur Feinstein, a member of the Sierra Club's San Francisco Bay Chapter, said the EIR didn't comply with the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA.

The introduction to the Sierra Club suit notes that "the FEIR failed to identify or underestimated the significance of environmental impacts associated with the project; failed to address the alternative proposed by Arc Ecology, which provides for a bus rapid transit route around Yosemite Slough; and failed to provide adequate responses to comments on the draft EIR."

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