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SF Redevelopment Agency plans to place prefabricated building on Parcel A - Lot D.

by Francisco Da Costa
The San Francisco Redevelopment Agency has not conducted one single meaningful meeting with the Public at Large attending to discuss placing a prefabricated building on Parcel A - Lot D to conduct training and use the building as a Community Center. The money to acquire and place this building will spend, Stimulus Money - Federal Money - our tax payers money. The sore point in this hasty, fast tracked, sordid planning - the area is polluted. The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has fined LENNAR - $515,000 linked to parcel A. Over 500 Notice of Violations (NOVs) have been issued to LENNAR.
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LENNAR a Rogue Developer will not go away.

There has not been one single meaningful meeting about placing a prefabricated building on Parcel A lot D. The Public at Large has NOT been notified that Stimulus Money will be used - our Federal Tax Payers money to building this prefabricated building to train our youth and others and use the building as a Community Center.

No where in any of the General Plans linked to Parcel A are there plans for a prefabricated building - that will be a Community Center and one used to train youth and others. Who is making these decisions - and who is backing these dubious plans.

The 35% Asians including Pacific Islanders, the 16% Blacks, the 27% Latinos, 20%Whites, 1% Native Americans, 1% others - know nothing about this plan. Let not some, mostly Black loud mouths - push for this hidden agenda that will go no where.

While there are hundreds of other areas where this Stimulus Money could be spent wisely - again, with LENNAR prodding the SF Redevelopment Agency - the SF Redevelopment Agency is going with the flow. Only this time this FLOW will flow right into a TOXIC - cesspool.

There are many large Ware Houses and Young Community Developers could take the lead - rather then the dubious City Build that wasted $7 million two years ago, $15 million last year, and is poised to waste millions of dollars this year. Its corrupt head one Rhonda Simmons.

Parcel A is really not clean. If it is clean why has LENNAR been issued over 500 Notices of Violation (NOVs) linked to Parcel A for very high exceedances linked to Asbestos Structures and Toxic Dust.

One must remember early in 2004 a foot-print was found of homes and sewer lines that had radiological contaminants. Tetra Tech that works for the U.S. Navy was secretly brought in and told to abate the areas. Other hot-spots have been found. Parcel A per se is not very clean - it is dirty enough to harm all life forms and that includes human being at this time.

This after it was conveyed as clean by the Regulatory Agencies.

Hunter Point Shipyard is where depleted Uranium was tested. Where thousands of radiated animals have been buried all over the Shipyard.

The City and County of San Francisco has the Precautionary Principle and the powers that be the Mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsom who is corrupt, the Mayor's Office of Economic Development, the SF Redevelopment Agency, other very dubious agencies better NOT play with the health of our youth and others - on the pretext that they are being - trained.

The area is surrounded by the worst type of pollution - much of it radiological in nature.

The following document while trying to do some justice - fails to address pollution, more cumulative pollution, and completely leaves out the latest empirical data - on the heavy Toxic Dust readings and more so Asbestos friables that harm all life forms:

http://www.sfredevelopment.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=650

There was report given to the Clerk of Board of the SF Board of Supervisor linked to the agenda item before the SF Board of Supervisors. The mistake was corrected at the Special Meeting to hoodwink the public and have this agenda item passed. the report was given to the Secretary of the SF Redevelopment Agency that has nothing to do with the SF Board of Supervisors.

The matter about some Community Building was vaguely discussed in the past and no detail information about permits, pollution, adverse impacts to health, adverse impacts to youth and others that will be trained in an area that is very polluted and impacted by more radiological impacts from parcel B, C, D, E, F, G, and the other parcels the U.S. Navy is carving out to fulfill its mission of capping the area - and handing it over to the GREEDY developers.

The same with at the African Market places that is going no where not with the dwindling African American population. The same with the plans made by the Tabernacle Group that DOES not have one single, legal and valid agreement signed to this day. These mostly Black Pastors are the scum of the earth. Ever heard of a bunch of silly pastors - dressed in yellow and bright blue colors - wheeling and dealing - and pretending to be developers. What Theology School educates such vermin?

The SF Health Department has failed with its Article 31 and more with any sensible monitoring. The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has fined LENNAR - $515,000 but the fine is sitting in some dubious fund - and the money should be used to test the victims of the pollution - the bombardment of children, our elders other innocent people by LENNAR that did these act with - INTENT.

Blood in on the hands of LENNAR and all these sell outs that will utter whatever they are told to utter - folks like Aurelioius Walker, Linda Richardson, Angelo King, Big Bell a pastor of sorts - will bear the wrath of the community at large - in the near future. All it takes is one incident to harm some few people and that will happen sooner not later at Parcel A.

In the meantime LENNAR has been sending out reading material saying that Parcel A is clean and quoting the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) about this nonsense.

Recently the EPA in a letter addressed to Kofi Bonner the Regional Vice President of Lennar Bay Area Urban warned LENNAR not to resort to such ploys and machinations. The letter is dated March 30, 2010.

The letter was signed by Michael Montgomey Assistant Director, Superfund Division, Federal Facilities and Site Cleanup Branch.

Jared Blumenfeld the present EPA, Director of Region IX is fully aware about LENNAR and its dealings all over the Nation. LENNAR should be ashamed of itself.

The State of California should take action and warn those spend Stimulus Money without due care and putting innocent humans beings and other life in harms way.

The White House has been informed and others that can evaluate this dubious project and waste of tax payers money linked to the Stimulus Plan - will be informed to take direct and speedy action.

http://www.sescdc.org

http://www.hunterspointnavashipyard.com

Francisco Da Costa
Director
Environmental Justice Advocacy


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