Hi all, See agenda item marked 3 under ***THE HEARING*** below. Note that the hearing item involves the entire Candlestick Point 'redevelopment' plan, not just the land in the Leno SB 792 giveaway. **TALKING POINTS** Our best points with which to oppose the plan will address the Bay Commission's own criteria of "whether the proposed project is adequately designed to address the effect of sea level rise on public access areas" We should argue: a) A vast majority of Bayview Hunters Point residents have consistently and overwhelmingly opposed this plan and their input about access, views, safety, chemical contamination and climate induced sea level rise have never been seriously or sufficiently addressed in the plan. b) New evidence clearly shows that the climate crisis is orders of magnitude worse than previously believed, and it is now likely that the bay will undergo many meters of sea level rise over the next few decades. The only way, if any, to mitigate such sea level rise is to put an extensive wetland wildlife habitat buffer along the entire perimeter of San Francisco Bay. This project plan clearly does exactly the opposite and erects hundreds of acres of housing and commercial buildings on land which will be extensively flooded in near future decades. c) Toxic and radioactive chemicals from former Navy and commercial operations in the area have not been (and probably can never be) sufficiently cleaned up mechanically, and when the sea level inevitably rises, these chemicals will leach into the neighborhood and the bay. This makes the extensive restoration of a wetland wildlife buffer zone vital, especially when we take into account that complex wetland habitats are the -only- way that has been proven to successfully bind and filter such deeply mired and infused chemical contamination. d) Lennar is unlikely to complete even the existing extremely flawed plan. Lennar is in severe financial difficulty, has canceled affordable housing agreements, is behind schedule on its construction projects, and has even abandoned entire waterfront projects like the Vallejo Mare Island development. e) Lennar is apparently getting projects approved only in order to pretend to its stockholders that its capital value is growing when it is in fact collapsing. This has led to Lennar simply shifting dirt and rock around to pretend that its projects are moving forward; and this digging, grading and shifting without ever finally anchoring the soil is stirring up and leaving exposed natural and dumped toxic materials which are directly poisoning both area residents and the bay. For these reasons, all proposed -and- existing construction should be immediately disapproved and halted until the area is secured from contamination and a sensible restoration plan is adopted. ***THE HEARING*** Here is the hearing announcement: (also at http://www.bcdc.ca.gov/meetings/drb/2009/09-14_agenda.shtml with document links) San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) Design Review Board Meeting September 14, 2009, 6:30 pm BCDC Conference Room 50 California Street, 26th Floor San Francisco, CA Agenda 3. Hunters Point Shipyard-Candlestick Point Project, City and County of San Francisco; First Pre-Application Review The Design Review Board will hold a public hearing on a proposal by the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency and HPS Development Co., LP, and CP Development Co., LP (a joint venture between Lennar and Scala Real Estate Partners, Hillwood, and Estein and Associates, USA), to implement a residential, commercial, parks and open space project, at an approximately 700-acre site along a 9.6-mile section of the southeastern waterfront in the City and County of San Francisco. The proposed project would involve the development of two sites, the Hunter’s Point Shipyard Shipyard and Candlestick Point, that would ultimately function as a single integrated area. The proposed development project would involve the construction of 10,500 residential units, a ferry terminal, a 300-berth marina, a causeway over Yosemite Slough, a public housing facility to replace the existing Alice Griffith complex, and possibly a new 69,000-seat football stadium. In addition, the project would involve the development of 885,000 square feet of retail space, 2,650,000 square feet of office/research and development space, a 150,000-square-foot, 220-room hotel, a 75,000-square-foot cultural arena, and a 225,000-square-foot artist’s studio facility. Across the site, building heights range from three-story townhomes to 32-story highrises. The site would be developed to facilitate pedestrian and bicycle circulation and public transit. The proposed project would also involve the development of and improvements to approximately 350 acres of park and open space area. The project would occur within the Commission’s 100-foot shoreline band and Bay jurisdictions, and within areas designated for priority use in the Commission’s San Francisco Bay Plan. The Board’s review of this project will focus on: (1) whether the proposed project provides adequate, usable and attractive public access spaces, and whether the project provides adequate connections to and continuity along the shoreline; (2) whether the proposed project maintains and preserves the visual quality of the Bay and shoreline, and enhances the public’s view of the Bay and shoreline especially in relation to the proposed structures; (3); whether the proposed project is adequately designed to address the effect of sea level rise on public access areas; and(4) whether interim access improvements could be installed and, if so, how such improvements would be designed and implemented. (Jaime Michaels) [415/352-3613 or jaimem@bcdc.ca.gov] Questions and Staff Reports. 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