[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "More housing approved for Hunters Point [CA] despite contamination concerns"

[Lenny Siegel]

More housing approved for Hunters Point despite contamination concerns
San Francisco has approved initial plans for the construction of more homes at the Hunters Point Shipyard, despite pending litigation over health concerns there.

by LAURA WAXMANN
San Francisco Examiner (CA)
July 17, 2019
 
San Francisco has approved initial plans for the construction of more homes at the Hunters Point Shipyard, despite pending litigation over health concerns there, and reports of fraud in the ongoing toxic cleanup of the former U.S. naval base.

Mayor London Breed and Supervisor Shamann Walton earlier this year ordered an independent investigation led by a panel of experts from U.C. Berkeley and UCSF into the cleanup of the Superfund site. Navy contractor Tetra Tech is accused of botching the radiation cleanup at the shipyard following audits by the Navy and the Environmental Protection Agency made public early last year.

No matter, The City’s Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure (OCII) Commission on Tuesday approved revised schematic designs for the development of Block 52 — which stretches roughly an acre along Kirkwood and Jerrold streets and is owned by developer Lennar Urban. The plan would bring 68 market-rate and nine below-market rate units.

The commission also on Tuesday approved 112 affordable units on Block 54, which stretches along Innes Avenue and would be developed by the agency.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/more-housing-approved-for-hunters-point-despite-contamination-concerns/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel at cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org