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Bayview Marches Against Redevelopment – But Prop 90 Would Be its Worst Nightmare
One week after City Attorney Dennis Herrera disenfranchised over 33,000 San Franciscans by invalidating the Bayview referendum, over 100 Bayview residents and activists gathered at the corner of Third Street and Williams to protest, march and rally to save their neighborhood. “We’re marching because people spoke – and people have to be heard,” said Francisco DeCosta, Executive Director of Environmental Justice Advocacy, a local non-profit in the Bayview District. For decades, Bayview-Hunters Point has been neglected and left to fend for itself while crime, unemployment, pollution and police brutality run rampant. Today, the neighborhood residents want nothing more than to control their own destiny, but a massive new Redevelopment area plans to put critical land-use decisions in the hands of an unelected body. After a grassroots movement gathered the necessary signatures to challenge the Redevelopment plan and place it on the ballot, City Hall shut them out.
One week after City Attorney Dennis Herrera disenfranchised over 33,000 San Franciscans by invalidating the Bayview referendum, over 100 Bayview residents and activists gathered at the corner of Third Street and Williams to protest, march and rally to save their neighborhood. “We’re marching because people spoke – and people have to be heard,” said Francisco DeCosta, Executive Director of Environmental Justice Advocacy, a local non-profit in the Bayview District. For decades, Bayview-Hunters Point has been neglected and left to fend for itself while crime, unemployment, pollution and police brutality run rampant. Today, the neighborhood residents want nothing more than to control their own destiny, but a massive new Redevelopment area plans to put critical land-use decisions in the hands of an unelected body. After a grassroots movement gathered the necessary signatures to challenge the Redevelopment plan and place it on the ballot, City Hall shut them out.
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