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Major snags on Parcel A at Hunters Point and more snags all over Bayview with SFRA plans
SFRA has met it first major SNAG on Parcle A just as it will meet many major snags all over the area it plans to build the 49er City and more all over Bayview Hunters Point in areas that are very prone to liquefaction. We have over 400 toxic hot spots and SFRA does not want to address Quality of Life Issues regarding abating and mitigating. SFRA plans to cap the toxic areas and build thousands of homes on Brown Fields, Toxic Hot Spots and give a damn to the health of the constituents of those that will make their homes in the Bayview Hunters Point in the future. Backing SFRA is the dumb, inept, and very corrupt Sophie Maxwell.
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
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
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Since most of the SF Penninsula was once redwood forest, maybe the best thing for the local residents is if contaminated waste sites were restored to forest ecosystems. The PG&E plant causing asthma at Hunter's Point should be torn down and restored to a redwood forest park. Clean air, clean water and maybe (in a few decades) clean fish in the bay. The trees would provide nearby residents with cleaner air and some shelter from severe weather. Trees and their fungal symbionts would begin the breakdown of the carcinogenic chemicals that contaminate the soils of these toxic sites. It's called patience, learn it..
The term "brownfield" is a bit too vague for me. Let's be more descriptive and call them what they are, contaminated toxic waste sites. Would you buy a house built over a brown field? Maybe. Soil is brown, so that term doesn't really explain much. Would u buy a house built over a toxic waste site? Probably not. Building houses immediately on top of soil contaminated with toxic waste is a sure route to increasing the cancer rate among humans. Maybe the pharmaceutical corporations need to justify their continued torture of animals (aka animal/medical research) by having more humans become sick with cancer. Of course the obvious immediate answer is that the city council and developers want their fast cash (may they choke hard on a 100 dollar bill), cancer rates in humans be damned..
Other people with wisdom who have formed some sort of a conscioussness are usually oppossed to placing innocent humans directly in harm's way. However, the intellect needed to influence society into making fast cash at the expense of others in no way correllates with wisdom and kindness. Dick Cheney is a great example of this diabolical intellect. Yet i stray from the topic at hand..
There are many examples of development on top of former toxic waste sites increasing cancer rates. State Environemntal Resource Center mentions a few public health disasters after developers built public schools on toxic waste sites.
http://www.serconline.org/toxicschoolsites/fact.html
"Communities of color and low income are often forced to send their kids to schools that are old and rundown. These parents eagerly await new, technologically advanced schools and often face an unfair decision: accept siting on inexpensive contaminated land so that funds remain to procure needed technology, or build on expensive environmentally safer property, depleting funds for teaching resources.
--->
Los Angeles, CA—Former Oilfield and Industrial Site
The Belmont Learning Complex, dubbed America’s most expensive school with its anticipated $200 million price tag, was proposed in 1985 by the Los Angeles Unified School District as a middle school to alleviate overcrowding and serve mostly Latino students from many of LA’s poorest neighborhoods. The project ballooned into a proposed 35-acre, state-of-the-art, internet-connected high school campus, with a shopping mall to jump-start area commercial development, 120 affordable apartments to address housing needs, and classrooms and innovative "academies" for 5,000 students. More than ten years later, the half-built brick building stands abandoned. Parents learned what the school district already knew—explosive methane gas, poisonous hydrogen sulfide, volatile organic compounds such as acetone, the carcinogen benzene, and residual crude oil saturated the earth where the school was being built, a former oilfield and industrial site. When construction halted, over $123 million had already been spent."
While schools and housing are important, maybe people need to find alternatives to building new housing. The recent housing boom in the Sacramento Valley is mostly in flood prone regions like wetlands and vernal pools or over farmland. These houses are excessively large mansions (complete with monoculture lawns) for wealthy suburbanites (aka "white flight"), not housing for lower income folks who really need it. No wonder the elves are lighting bonfires in sprawling subdivisions throughout the valley..
Redwood forest parks, not PG&E smog, no toxic waste housing!!
The term "brownfield" is a bit too vague for me. Let's be more descriptive and call them what they are, contaminated toxic waste sites. Would you buy a house built over a brown field? Maybe. Soil is brown, so that term doesn't really explain much. Would u buy a house built over a toxic waste site? Probably not. Building houses immediately on top of soil contaminated with toxic waste is a sure route to increasing the cancer rate among humans. Maybe the pharmaceutical corporations need to justify their continued torture of animals (aka animal/medical research) by having more humans become sick with cancer. Of course the obvious immediate answer is that the city council and developers want their fast cash (may they choke hard on a 100 dollar bill), cancer rates in humans be damned..
Other people with wisdom who have formed some sort of a conscioussness are usually oppossed to placing innocent humans directly in harm's way. However, the intellect needed to influence society into making fast cash at the expense of others in no way correllates with wisdom and kindness. Dick Cheney is a great example of this diabolical intellect. Yet i stray from the topic at hand..
There are many examples of development on top of former toxic waste sites increasing cancer rates. State Environemntal Resource Center mentions a few public health disasters after developers built public schools on toxic waste sites.
http://www.serconline.org/toxicschoolsites/fact.html
"Communities of color and low income are often forced to send their kids to schools that are old and rundown. These parents eagerly await new, technologically advanced schools and often face an unfair decision: accept siting on inexpensive contaminated land so that funds remain to procure needed technology, or build on expensive environmentally safer property, depleting funds for teaching resources.
--->
Los Angeles, CA—Former Oilfield and Industrial Site
The Belmont Learning Complex, dubbed America’s most expensive school with its anticipated $200 million price tag, was proposed in 1985 by the Los Angeles Unified School District as a middle school to alleviate overcrowding and serve mostly Latino students from many of LA’s poorest neighborhoods. The project ballooned into a proposed 35-acre, state-of-the-art, internet-connected high school campus, with a shopping mall to jump-start area commercial development, 120 affordable apartments to address housing needs, and classrooms and innovative "academies" for 5,000 students. More than ten years later, the half-built brick building stands abandoned. Parents learned what the school district already knew—explosive methane gas, poisonous hydrogen sulfide, volatile organic compounds such as acetone, the carcinogen benzene, and residual crude oil saturated the earth where the school was being built, a former oilfield and industrial site. When construction halted, over $123 million had already been spent."
While schools and housing are important, maybe people need to find alternatives to building new housing. The recent housing boom in the Sacramento Valley is mostly in flood prone regions like wetlands and vernal pools or over farmland. These houses are excessively large mansions (complete with monoculture lawns) for wealthy suburbanites (aka "white flight"), not housing for lower income folks who really need it. No wonder the elves are lighting bonfires in sprawling subdivisions throughout the valley..
Redwood forest parks, not PG&E smog, no toxic waste housing!!
Mayor Gavin Newsom plans to build homes on a Toxic Hot Spot I named Parcel A. While I agree trees help to reduce pollution Mayor Gavin Newsom and Marcia Rosen from the SFRA clear cut over 400 trees on Parcel A.
How can we Clear Cut so many trees and call ourselves a Green City?
I agree Brown Fields should be called Toxic Hot Spots and other names that really pin point the very harzardous waste found on those sites.
Thank you for sharing your great ideas.
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