City Sells Hunters Point to Lennar as Activists Revive Referendum

by Paul Hogarth, Beyond Chron (reposted)

Tue, Apr 17, 2007 7:25AM

Opponents of the Bayview Redevelopment Plan – who last year gathered 33,000 signatures to challenge it at the ballot box – yesterday filed for a court injunction to get the City to validate the signatures. Last September, City Attorney Dennis Herrera issued an opinion that the signatures were invalid because the petitions did not include all 500 pages of the Plan. If upheld, Herrera’s opinion would effectively eviscerate the right to challenge any law by referendum – as no petition-gatherer can be reasonably expected to carry the equivalent of two phonebooks.

Now, under the auspices of keeping the 49ers in San Francisco, Redevelopment plans to give away a large portion of Bayview-Hunters Point to the Lennar Corporation. Yesterday, the Board of Supervisors Land Use Committee reviewed a plan for the area – with a new football stadium, biotech businesses and high-rise condominiums. Because it’s now a Redevelopment area, the Supervisors can’t do anything about it. And when Brian O’Flynn spoke during public comment about the Bayview Referendum that if successful could sink the whole project, Supervisor Sophie Maxwell cut him off and said they weren’t talking about the Redevelopment Plan.

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