Dust rising from construction work now going on at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard redevelopment project poses no special danger to either workers or neighbors, according to a report released today by the federal Environmental Protection Agency.
SAN FRANCISCO -- The plan to redevelop the Hunters Point Shipyard in San Francisco passed a major hurdle Thursday when the city's redevelopment and planning commissions approved the project's environmental impact report at a joint meeting.
The Planning Commission approved the certification of the environmental report by a 4-3 vote, while the Redevelopment Commission approved it by a unanimouation of the environmental report by a 4-3 vote, while the Redevelopment Commission approved it by a unanimous 7-0 vote.
Backers of the plan to build a new city neighborhood at the old Hunters Point Naval Shipyard won a long-awaited victory Thursday night, but their toughest test will come next month when the Board of Supervisors takes up the project.
"I'm just starting to look at the plan," said Supervisor David Chiu, the board president. "There's a lot to review and I have a lot of questions."
Hunters Point shipyard developer Lennar is gearing up for a contentious showdown at the San Francisco Board of Supervisors after winning approvals from the planning and redevelopment commissions.
After a public hearing that lasted nearly 13 hours and featured public testimony from 124 people -- 94 for and 30 against -- the Planning Commission voted Thursday night 4-3 to certify the 7,700 page environmental impact report on phase two of the redevelopment of the shipyard and Candlestick Point. The redevelopment board voted unanimously to certify the EIR.
Nine artists will be paid nearly $1 million in commissions to provide public art for parks and public spaces that will be part of the first phase of the Hunters Point Shipyard project.
The winning artists were chosen in December from a field of 283 entrants, whose work was displayed in a weeklong exhibition at the Bayview Opera House. The negotiated commissions, which are paid from federal grant money, were recently approved by the city's Redevelopment Commission.
By John Upton - San Francisco Examiner, May 14, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO — Benefits planned to flow to San Franciscans from a massive shipyard redevelopment project, including scores of jobs for unemployed locals, were lauded Thursday.
Some officials and residents, however, expressed skepticism about whether the expensive package of benefits was realistic and whether locals would secure substantial amounts of work.
By John Upton - San Francisco Examiner, May 17, 2010
More than 100 people, agencies and other stakeholders commented on a draft environmental impact report related to the planned redevelopment of 702 acres of land in southeastern San Francisco.
The comments had only minor impacts in terms of reshaping the redevelopment plans for the shuttered Hunters Point Naval Shipyard and surrounding land.
SAN FRANCISCO — An elegant modular building filled with resources for job seekers will this year become the first permanent structure built as part of a massive planned redevelopment of a shuttered shipyard.
John Cote, Chronicle Staff Writer
Thursday, December 10, 2009
The battle for the San Francisco 49ers to pick a home has intensified.
Under the cloud of a fresh lawsuit, a group of prominent Santa Clara residents plans to launch its own effort today to get a stadium built in Silicon Valley.
That move comes as the developer for the proposed San Francisco site released new renderings of a stadium at Hunters Point, showcasing the waterfront location.
SAN FRANCISCO — An abandoned Navy warehouse is slated to be overhauled and reopened as a clean-tech incubation campus and local United Nations Global Compact headquarters.
The incubator would be established in southeast San Francisco as part of an effort to woo and foster job-providing companies operating in emerging environmental fields.
Mayor Gavin Newsom announced in July that the U.N. Global Compact would build an 80,000-square-foot clean-tech campus by 2012 at the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, which is at the heart of sweeping redevelopment plans for the 702-acre site.
