Bayview Community Input Missing from 49ers Stadium, Olympics Plans

Backers of the recently approved Bayview-Hunters Point Redevelopment Plan insisted that it merely fulfilled a decade-long community planning process. The Plan would allegedly ensure that community input, not outside forces, would shape the neighborhood’s future. But within weeks of the Plan’s approval, Mayor Newsom announced plans to build thousands of apartments in Bayview to house athletes attending the 2016 Olympics, the 49ers declared an intention to build a new stadium and to join with the Lennar Corp. to develop adjacent parcels, and Lennar Corp. has sent word that it is reconsidering its Redevelopment-Agency sponsored plan for townhouses at the former Hunters-Point Naval Shipyard. All three of these proposals would dramatically remake the Bayview-Hunters Point community--- yet residents of the low-income African-American community had to learn about plans for their neighborhood in the newspaper.