12/14: A call to all allies STOP SHIPYARD DEVELOPMENT

Dear Activist Friends,

A goodly number of you showed up to support Bayview
Hunters Point residents in our first of a series of
ongoing actions to resist and oppose to City's
permission to PG&E to keep the plant running with no
serious commitment to close.

Your presence and solidarity on that rainy day was so
very important. Thank you, and I hope your valuable
presence will we wittnessed in an ongoing way.

Next Tuesday is another important event which will
affect our community profoundly in the comming years.

It is the last chance to cause the Board of
Supervisors to reconsider the handing over of the
Shipyard to the Lennar Corporation for the beginning
of development on this superfund site.

It will mean more than you know if all of you could
show up a little after 2PM on Tuesday, December 14,'04
at City Hall for the regular BOS meeting / Legistative
Chamber.

Mary Ratcliff and I are producing some bright tags to
pin on when you arrive so the Supes will be aware that
all of us are there to demand environmental justice.

Here's the whole scoop from the Ratcliffs:


EMERGENCY! SPREAD THE WORD: STOP LENNAR'S BULLDOZERS!
NO DEVELOPMENT OF THE HUNTERS POINT SHIPYARD UNTIL
IT'S CLEAN!

The message below was forwarded to us. It's an excerpt
of an update from Sophie's (District 10 supervisor)
office. It shows that this week's Bay View editorial
contains a big mistake.

We'd been told that the Board of Supervisors had voted
to postpone final action until January on this package
of legislation that gives the green light to Shipyard
development.

NOT TRUE!!! The final vote is coming at this Tuesday's
meeting of the Board of Supervisors. And at this
point, we have ONLY TWO VOTES against it, Daly and
Gonzalez.

So it looks like we have two things to do - in a
hurry! Lobby the rest of the Supes, especially
Ammiano 554-5144,
Peskin 554-7450,
Sandoval 554-6975 and
McGoldrick 554-7410.

Spread the word for all supporters of environmental
and economic justice to be there:

- SF Board of Supervisors Regular Meeting
- Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2pm
- Legislative Chamber, 2nd Floor, City Hall

For folks who need more information about the crisis
at the Shipyard, the 12/8 Bay View editorial, despite
the error on the date of the vote, should be a big
help. It's at
http://www.sfbayview.com/120804/lennarbuyssupport120804.shtml.

Remind the Supes that at least one of the sponsors of
this legislative package, Mayor Gavin Newsom, should
recuse himself due to egregious conflicts of interest!
That alone should STOP LENNAR'S BULLDOZERS!

Willie & Mary Ratcliff

SF Bay View

(415) 671-0789

> From Supervisor Sophie Maxwell:


LEGISLATION PENDING AT THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

" A package of legislation co-sponsored by Supervisor
Maxwell and Mayor Gavin Newsom that would enable the
first phase of development to proceed at the Hunters
Point Shipyard passed the Board of Supervisors on
Tuesday on a 9-2 vote. The legislation will be heard
again for second reading this coming Tuesday, December
14, along with a few additional pieces of companion
legislation, resolutions that require one vote for
approval.

"Should this package of legislation pass, we
anticipate demolition and grading activities at the
Shipyard, closed by the Navy in 1974, will begin this
February. Phase I of development will create 1,600 new
units of
housing, including at least 32% (and possibly 44%) of
all units to be affordable based upon a
Bayview-specific income standard. In addition,other
benefits include: 30% of all development is set aside
for community-based developers (with an additional 6
acres of land set aside for community development of
community facilities), an estimated $35-40 million in
net revenue from land sales will be reinvested in the
Bayview Hunters Point community, and 35 acres of new
open space and parks will be provided."

(end of message from District 10 Supervisor)