[Sustain] Fwd: Naive Fog City Report On Bogus Hunters Point Clean-Up

[Eric Brooks]

http://www.fogcityjournal.com/news_in_brief/pr_hunters_point_cleanup_funding_080103.shtml


  Pelosi, Feinstein, Newsom announce federal funding
  for Hunters Point shipyard cleanup


    Newsom says redevelopment will not result in gentrification


San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator 
Dianne Feinstein today announced $82 million in federal funding for the 
toxic clean up
of the Hunters Point Shipyard superfund site.
*Photos by Luke Thomas 
<http://www.fogcityjournal.com/profiles/profile_luke_thomas.shtml>*

*By Luke Thomas 
<http://www.fogcityjournal.com/profiles/profile_luke_thomas.shtml>*


      January 3, 2008

Joined by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator Dianne Feinsten, Mayor Gavin 
Newsom today announced $82 million in federal funding for the toxic 
cleanup of the Hunters Point Shipyard superfund site.

"This is a huge victory for San Francisco in general and the Bayview 
Hunters Point Community in particular," Newsom said. "With these funds 
in hand, the City will be able to continue moving forward with its plans 
to transform the long-shuttered Shipyard from a environmental blight on 
the community into a world-class location providing waterfront parks, 
thousands of jobs, affordable housing and a major clean technology campus."

Mayor Newsom, who made several trips to Washington D.C. in the past year 
to persuade federal officials that the cleanup of the Shipyard should be 
a major priority for the federal delegation, praised the work of Speaker 
Nancy Pelosi and Senator Dianne Feinstein in securing the cleanup money 
for the Shipyard.

"At a time when the Department of Defense is spending less and less 
money every year cleaning up closed, toxic military bases, this level of 
funding is truly remarkable," Newsom said. "It is a testament to the 
strong leadership and commitment of Speaker Pelosi and Senator Feinstein 
to get the Shipyard cleaned up on time and in a manner that will allow 
us to implement the community's vision for revitalizing the City's 
southeastern waterfront."

The federal funds will be used to prepare over 100 acres of land at the 
Shipyard for transfer to the City at no cost, including land slated for 
new housing, parks and approximately 25 acres for a potential site for a 
new stadium for the San Francisco 49ers.

Asked what assurances he could provide to the Bayview Hunters Point 
community to allay fears of gentrification due to redevelopment, Newsom 
told Fog City Journal: "That's why 42 percent of the work being done is 
being done by local builders on Parcel A. That's why 30 percent of all 
the housing that's being developed out here on Parcel A is affordable 
housing. That's why we're rebuilding public housing units, one-to-one 
replacement, and providing mixed-income opportunities for people at all 
income levels by rebuilding public housing. That's why we're including 
protections and provisions that are very similar for the rest of the 
project."

"One thing I will not do is sit back and do nothing, and continue to see 
the rates of prostate cancer, breast cancer, cervical cancer rise in the 
southeast sector - and asthma rates - because we didn't have the courage 
to actually step up and actually get something done. And that's 
something I'm very proud that we've advanced," Newsom said.


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