As Bayview Referendum Goes to Court, Lennar Plows AheadPaul Hogarthbyline‚ May. 08‚ 2007Superior Court Judge Patrick Mahoney heard oral arguments yesterday between activists who gathered 33,000 signatures to bring the Bayview Redevelopment Plan to a vote and the Judge’s former employer – the City Attorney’s Office. But while it’s uncertain if San Francisco voters will have the chance to contest the City’s largest Redevelopment Plan, its consequences are already in full effect. Across the street at City Hall, the Board of Supervisors Land Use Committee passed a resolution endorsing the framework of Lennar’s plan to redevelop Hunters Point Shipyard and Candlestick Point – a plan that would not be possible without making Bayview-Hunters Point a Redevelopment Area. But with public testimony that Lennar has already spread asbestos into Hunters Point with minimal oversight, giving it exclusive control over a massive project was (to say the least) troubling. But the train has already left the station, and all the Supervisors could ask for at this point was more “community oversight.” |