Major snags on Parcel A at Hunters Point and more snags all over Bayview with SFRA plans

San Francisco Redevelopment Agency (SFRA) just met is first snag when on Parcel A that has already been conveyed to the City and County of San Francisco - it was discovered there remains radiological hot spots and other dangerous hot spots too toxic and dangerous to build homes for human beings. Cumulative Pollution remains to be addressed.

SFRA has now been forced to inform the Regulatory Agencies but the Mayor of San Francisco and the San Francisco Health Department has not said a word. The developer chosen to build 1600 homes in the middle of Chernobyl has approaced Tetra Tech to see if they can help in the mitigation. All work has stopped and work should have begaun 9 months ago but now it will not begin because some one has to address the very serious radiological issues.

Now let me ask a very simple question of Michael Cohen, Jesse Blout, and Marcia Rosen how can a parcel be conveyed to the City and County of San Francisco to build homes when low and behold there remains very serious hot spots that will adversely impact human lives and all living beings in the area?

What has Nancy Pelosi to say about this fact and she has no clue what is happening? Or does she if she has her finger in this ugly mess?

Mayor Gavin Newsom does not want to believe that the experiments carried on at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard on Parcel A, B, C, D, E, and F were radiological in nature. It does not take a rocket scientist to understand that elements such as Cesium take a long time to cease giving out harmful particles that can and will harm any living beings.

So, now San Francisco Redevelopment Agency thinks it can pull a fast one just like it did at Mission Bay. Many parts of Mission Bay sit on polluted areas. Santa Fe once used huge areas for it railway operations. Toxic area polluted with oil, tar, and other dangerous elements were found in large areas. No clean up was done at Mission Bay.

In Sacramento a like area operated by Santa Fe was abated and over 1 million tons of toxic soil removed. At Oakland over 400,000 tons were removed. How ever under Marcia Rosen at Mission Bay not one inch was abated. The toxic soil from the higer ground around 4th and King was removed and dumped on the lower ground - where today sits the brand new UCSF.

Santa Fe was turned over to Southern Pacific and then Southern Pacific became Catellus Corporation. Same snake different head. Some time ago Catellus Corporation jumped shipped and sold its assests to another company that now holds the bag full of worms.

Millions of square feet of commercial and residential space sits vacant at Mission Bay. Those that know fear the toxicity in the area - especially those that are educated.

Most people in the know - know about the toxic soil and the fungi and other dangerous fumes that have made many basements at Mission Bay dangerous to use. Just do some detective work and you will find out for yourself. Greed know no bounds when it comes to Marcia Rosen and the SFRA.

We all know the harm done to many in the Western Addition. Now, we have arrived at Bayview Hunters Point and SFRA will encounter snag after snag. SFRA will not clean the former Schlage Lock Company site near Visitation Valley. Sophie Maxwell wants to build homes on the site.

The whole area surrounding Candle Stick Park is prone to liquefaction. The area has Cultural Resources but the SFRA and its Environmental Impact Report has not addressed this vital fact.

There has been no plan to mitigate for 400 toxic hot spots. Many of the most dangerous hot spots are around Yosemite Slough and the surrounding areas. Some fools are planning to make that area look like Crissy Field. It is such conceptions without proper planning and without any consideration for human life. Yosemite Slough has very high concentrations of PCBs.

It is time Michael Cohen, Mayor Gavin Newsom, Marcia Rosen, Jesse Blout, and the many SFRA cronies think well before they meet snag after snag after snag.

The Old South Bayshore Plan forbids adversely impacting the folks that live at Alice Griffith Public Housing. Sophie Maxwell has introduced an Ordinance File Number 060354 to change all that. Sophie is selling out her Black Community she is worse then the worst Uncle Tom.

On April 19, 2006 at 1:00 p.m. before the Land Use Committee the matter will be discussed. The area is generally bounded by Cesar Chavez Street to the North, US 101 to the West, San Mateo to the South and the San Francisco Bay to the East.

Call the Clerk of the Board at (415) 554-5184 for more information or to give your valuable feed back. Call Sophie Maxwell at (415) 554-7670.

Act now or forever hold your peace.

It is all about stealing your land and homes - it is about Eminent Domain.

Francisco Da Costa
Director
Environmental Justice Advocacy