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Lennar BVHP LLC and the San Francisco School Board's Resolution exposing Lennar
The San Francisco School Board has taken the initiative to bring to light the adverse impacts imposed on innocent children and others by Lennar BVHP LLC. Several PUBLIC schools have been impacted by Lennar's BVHP LLC activities on Parcel A and massive grading of Ultramaphic Serpentine Rock. Concerned parents, relatives, and concerned constituents have gone before the San Francisco Unified School Board Meetings and expressed their concern linked to the adverse impacts and children. Be there Tuesday, September 25, 2007 at 4:30 p.m. - 555 Franklin Street to voice your opinion and be heard.
Concerned parents, children, friends and relatives, and decent constituents have gone before the San Francisco Unified School District at 555 Franklin Street and expressed their concerns about the adverse impacts and suffering - imposed by Lennar BVHP LLC as a result of activities, many illegal on Parcel A - at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard.
Lennar BVHP LLC has conducted massive grading of a very toxic and dangerous rock - called Ultramaphic Serpentine Rock. This rock when crushed is very toxic and when released Asbestos Structures into the air and inhaled will cause adverse impacts in the short term and death in the long term.
One single Asbestos Friable inhaled in the human system will cause cancer and slow death.
The World Health Organization makes this very clear. So, do enlightened, well informed doctors and scientists well versed with Asbestos Structures.
If San Francisco has a Toxicologist we could put him or her to work. But, you know what this great City does not have one. We have clowns like Dr. Mitch Katz and Dr. Rajiv Bhatia. These two clowns think nothing of the bombardment of millions of structures of Asbestos that has been going on - for too long a period - in and around Parcel A - mostly adversely affecting children.
The San Francisco Health Department has set a cap of 16,000 structures per cubic meter - a standard that does not take into consideration that this - very toxic rock when crushed belongs to a family of Serpentine Rock and precisely named Ultramaphic Serpentine Rock.
This particular rock is found on Parcel A and some surrounding areas on Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. Potrero Hill and there is a vein of it at the Presidio of San Francisco.
Dr.Rajiv Bhatia has been trying his best to stop the testing of children and others exposed to Asbestos and other toxic dust - by unethical practices conducted through the San Francisco Health Department (SFHD).
The SF Health Department has released reading material that says the air on Parcel is cleaner then most parts of San Francisco and California. Parcel A and the surrounding Area is a Superfund Site.
Hunters Point Naval Shipyard is one of the ten worst toxic sites in this Nation. Dr. Mitch Katz and Dr. Rajiv Bhatia know something thousands of other do not - and if they are totally wrong and have harmed so many - they must go.
The SFHD mandated that Lennar BVHP LLC sign and agree to a legal agreement as stated in Article 31 of the San Francisco Health Department Code. Lennar BVHP LLC chose to violate the agreement and did not have Dust Monitoring equipment and Asbestos Monitoring equipment in place of the the project for 4 months at the start of their Project on Parcel A. This is a very serious crime.
During these 4 months massive grading took place and Lennar BVHP LLC did not do anything - four months is a long time and the SFHD bears responsibility for not following up on complaints and other telephone calls made.
I made several telephone calls myself and wrote about the situation on my web site:
http://www.franciscodacosta.org
Some of us came before the San Francisco School Board and spoke about this issue. We went before the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency (SFRA) and voiced our concern. We went before the Land Use Committee and of course the San Francisco Board of Supervisors (BOS).
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors (BOS) had a special hearing and voted 6-5 to side with Lennar BVHP LLC. Aaron Peskin, Sophie Maxwell, Sean Elsbernd, Jake McGoldrick, Michaela Alioto-Pier, and Bevan Dufty sided with Lennar BVHP LLC.
Ross Mirkarimi, Tom Ammiano, Ed Jew, Chris Daly, and Gerado Sandoval sided with the community and the children that are adversely affected.
Hundreds of children and elders are rushed to hospital every day - suffering from breathing problems, nose bleeds, severe coughing, headaches, and other related ailments linked with breathing.
It is not uncommon to see several Ambulances respond to Bayview Hunters Point in the affected area to rush patients to near by hospitals every day.
Several people have died.
The Coroner Office can reveal the truth if pressured by the authorities that want to get to the bottom of this serious Health and Safety issue that has plagued the constituents living near by - for the last two years - about the time the rogue Lennar BVHP LLC started their dubious operations - large scale massive grading.
Lennar BVHP LLC and Luster Corporation had the responsibility to do the right thing - but failed and failed again after repeated warnings.
Kofi Bonner the Lennar BVHP LLC local in charge - has failed in his duties. This weasel must go and before that be accountable for his misdeeds.
Our INNOCENT children have suffered too much.
And now we have a MOVEMENT that will take to task all those that have sided with Lennar BVHP LLC - putting temporary jobs and some interim gratification - over the lives of our innocent children.
This City has Article 31 and a Dust Mitigation that Lennar BVHP LLC ignored.
This City and County of San Francisco has a Precautionary Principle and Lennar BVHP LLC has failed to abide by it. Shame of Lennar BVHP LLC and our SFHD and also our SF BOS.
Lennar BVHP LLC agreed and signed a Disposition and Development Agreement and did not abide by it.
Lennar BVHP LLC a thug corporation that has multitude of serious complaints all over this Nation - thought it could come into San Francisco and screw us over and over again.
Recently we conducted private tests on dust swipes taken from some hot spots and mostly from exterior surfaces. We were shocked with the results too many exceedences of in organics and some - radiological in nurture.
We have empirical data linked to over 100 exceedences of Asbestos Dust - over the cap of 16,000 structures - some readings reaching 55,000 and 60,000 structures per cubic meter.
The paradox is when the real heavy grading was done - there were no Dust and Asbestos Monitoring Equipment in place. Lennar BVHP LLC is a rogue corporation - a Limited Liability Corporation to be precise and such proxy corporations are set to make money - greed and monetary gain are their only justification.
Sam Singer the Public Relations person behind Lennar BVHP LLC has been using Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X to deceive people with glossy printed material and words that do injustice to these leaders and more to humanity.
This man would be first to condemn the holocaust but thinks nothing when our children are dying.
This man Sam Singer and his ploys have been tolerated for too long - Enough is Enough.
Lennar BVHP LLC is an outside that is not welcome. We have local developers that can clean the Hunters Point Shipyard first and then develop it. We have local businesses that can and will do the right thing.
So, stop send the wrong message when you and the like of you Sam Singer do not have the community on your side. You will fail and take my advice before you are put on the Shit List.
Do not play one side against the other - especially when you played no part in the Bayview Hunters Point before Lennar BVHP LLC came - and have let down the 49ers through dubious ploys. You are a plant that must be up rooted so that you can sing your blues - far away from San Francisco. Sam Singer a Public Relations Firm that see nothing when innocent children are killed.
Mayor Gavin Newsom who has lost his "moral compass" has NOT once condemned the atrocities committed on our innocent children. How can we trust this man and his nefarious activities? This tongue in cheek man that talks from both sides of his mouth?
This is San Francisco and we brag we are Green.
But, wait a minute without any permits this City Clear Cut over 400 mature trees on Parcel A. Many could have been saved and replanted - some of a kind trees.
This City has the Precautionary Principle and hundreds of so called Environmentalists and NOT one of them had the guts to take on Lennar BVHP LLC - a lot of them are connected to money and City money - and this blood money buys - SILENCE.
Come on - does not anyone have the guts and the balls to take on a corrupt, spineless, coward like Lennar BVHP LLC and their cronies that target the children, the elders, those already suffering from serious ailments and others that are exposed to untold amounts of particulates, toxic dust, in organic elements, and to top it radiological elements?
Come on San Francisco - we can do better then that and we can do it - now.
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/09/20/18448824.php
Francisco Da Costa
Director
Environmental Justice Advocacy
http://www.hunterspointnavalshipyard.com
Lennar BVHP LLC has conducted massive grading of a very toxic and dangerous rock - called Ultramaphic Serpentine Rock. This rock when crushed is very toxic and when released Asbestos Structures into the air and inhaled will cause adverse impacts in the short term and death in the long term.
One single Asbestos Friable inhaled in the human system will cause cancer and slow death.
The World Health Organization makes this very clear. So, do enlightened, well informed doctors and scientists well versed with Asbestos Structures.
If San Francisco has a Toxicologist we could put him or her to work. But, you know what this great City does not have one. We have clowns like Dr. Mitch Katz and Dr. Rajiv Bhatia. These two clowns think nothing of the bombardment of millions of structures of Asbestos that has been going on - for too long a period - in and around Parcel A - mostly adversely affecting children.
The San Francisco Health Department has set a cap of 16,000 structures per cubic meter - a standard that does not take into consideration that this - very toxic rock when crushed belongs to a family of Serpentine Rock and precisely named Ultramaphic Serpentine Rock.
This particular rock is found on Parcel A and some surrounding areas on Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. Potrero Hill and there is a vein of it at the Presidio of San Francisco.
Dr.Rajiv Bhatia has been trying his best to stop the testing of children and others exposed to Asbestos and other toxic dust - by unethical practices conducted through the San Francisco Health Department (SFHD).
The SF Health Department has released reading material that says the air on Parcel is cleaner then most parts of San Francisco and California. Parcel A and the surrounding Area is a Superfund Site.
Hunters Point Naval Shipyard is one of the ten worst toxic sites in this Nation. Dr. Mitch Katz and Dr. Rajiv Bhatia know something thousands of other do not - and if they are totally wrong and have harmed so many - they must go.
The SFHD mandated that Lennar BVHP LLC sign and agree to a legal agreement as stated in Article 31 of the San Francisco Health Department Code. Lennar BVHP LLC chose to violate the agreement and did not have Dust Monitoring equipment and Asbestos Monitoring equipment in place of the the project for 4 months at the start of their Project on Parcel A. This is a very serious crime.
During these 4 months massive grading took place and Lennar BVHP LLC did not do anything - four months is a long time and the SFHD bears responsibility for not following up on complaints and other telephone calls made.
I made several telephone calls myself and wrote about the situation on my web site:
http://www.franciscodacosta.org
Some of us came before the San Francisco School Board and spoke about this issue. We went before the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency (SFRA) and voiced our concern. We went before the Land Use Committee and of course the San Francisco Board of Supervisors (BOS).
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors (BOS) had a special hearing and voted 6-5 to side with Lennar BVHP LLC. Aaron Peskin, Sophie Maxwell, Sean Elsbernd, Jake McGoldrick, Michaela Alioto-Pier, and Bevan Dufty sided with Lennar BVHP LLC.
Ross Mirkarimi, Tom Ammiano, Ed Jew, Chris Daly, and Gerado Sandoval sided with the community and the children that are adversely affected.
Hundreds of children and elders are rushed to hospital every day - suffering from breathing problems, nose bleeds, severe coughing, headaches, and other related ailments linked with breathing.
It is not uncommon to see several Ambulances respond to Bayview Hunters Point in the affected area to rush patients to near by hospitals every day.
Several people have died.
The Coroner Office can reveal the truth if pressured by the authorities that want to get to the bottom of this serious Health and Safety issue that has plagued the constituents living near by - for the last two years - about the time the rogue Lennar BVHP LLC started their dubious operations - large scale massive grading.
Lennar BVHP LLC and Luster Corporation had the responsibility to do the right thing - but failed and failed again after repeated warnings.
Kofi Bonner the Lennar BVHP LLC local in charge - has failed in his duties. This weasel must go and before that be accountable for his misdeeds.
Our INNOCENT children have suffered too much.
And now we have a MOVEMENT that will take to task all those that have sided with Lennar BVHP LLC - putting temporary jobs and some interim gratification - over the lives of our innocent children.
This City has Article 31 and a Dust Mitigation that Lennar BVHP LLC ignored.
This City and County of San Francisco has a Precautionary Principle and Lennar BVHP LLC has failed to abide by it. Shame of Lennar BVHP LLC and our SFHD and also our SF BOS.
Lennar BVHP LLC agreed and signed a Disposition and Development Agreement and did not abide by it.
Lennar BVHP LLC a thug corporation that has multitude of serious complaints all over this Nation - thought it could come into San Francisco and screw us over and over again.
Recently we conducted private tests on dust swipes taken from some hot spots and mostly from exterior surfaces. We were shocked with the results too many exceedences of in organics and some - radiological in nurture.
We have empirical data linked to over 100 exceedences of Asbestos Dust - over the cap of 16,000 structures - some readings reaching 55,000 and 60,000 structures per cubic meter.
The paradox is when the real heavy grading was done - there were no Dust and Asbestos Monitoring Equipment in place. Lennar BVHP LLC is a rogue corporation - a Limited Liability Corporation to be precise and such proxy corporations are set to make money - greed and monetary gain are their only justification.
Sam Singer the Public Relations person behind Lennar BVHP LLC has been using Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X to deceive people with glossy printed material and words that do injustice to these leaders and more to humanity.
This man would be first to condemn the holocaust but thinks nothing when our children are dying.
This man Sam Singer and his ploys have been tolerated for too long - Enough is Enough.
Lennar BVHP LLC is an outside that is not welcome. We have local developers that can clean the Hunters Point Shipyard first and then develop it. We have local businesses that can and will do the right thing.
So, stop send the wrong message when you and the like of you Sam Singer do not have the community on your side. You will fail and take my advice before you are put on the Shit List.
Do not play one side against the other - especially when you played no part in the Bayview Hunters Point before Lennar BVHP LLC came - and have let down the 49ers through dubious ploys. You are a plant that must be up rooted so that you can sing your blues - far away from San Francisco. Sam Singer a Public Relations Firm that see nothing when innocent children are killed.
Mayor Gavin Newsom who has lost his "moral compass" has NOT once condemned the atrocities committed on our innocent children. How can we trust this man and his nefarious activities? This tongue in cheek man that talks from both sides of his mouth?
This is San Francisco and we brag we are Green.
But, wait a minute without any permits this City Clear Cut over 400 mature trees on Parcel A. Many could have been saved and replanted - some of a kind trees.
This City has the Precautionary Principle and hundreds of so called Environmentalists and NOT one of them had the guts to take on Lennar BVHP LLC - a lot of them are connected to money and City money - and this blood money buys - SILENCE.
Come on - does not anyone have the guts and the balls to take on a corrupt, spineless, coward like Lennar BVHP LLC and their cronies that target the children, the elders, those already suffering from serious ailments and others that are exposed to untold amounts of particulates, toxic dust, in organic elements, and to top it radiological elements?
Come on San Francisco - we can do better then that and we can do it - now.
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/09/20/18448824.php
Francisco Da Costa
Director
Environmental Justice Advocacy
http://www.hunterspointnavalshipyard.com
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