Seismic-Issues

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Plans are afoot to turn San Francisco’s 400-acre Treasure Island into an environmentally sustainable neighbourhood for up to 24,000 residents

It is either a vision for a new residential utopia in one of the most beautiful spots in the world or the most ill-conceived plan for a new city for a long time. Opinion is divided on a proposal to transform Treasure Island, a 400-acre man-made outcrop with picture-postcard views of San Francisco, into an environmentally sustainable neighbourhood for up to 24,000 residents.

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"It's about as risky a project as there is," said Jack Sylvan, San Francisco's director of the Treasure Island redevelopment project. "It's massively front-loaded."

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Lisa Kirk is standing on the superlevee of raised earth known as Delta Coves, gazing at the surreal project she fought for five years. The land is empty but for the dozens of aluminum docks that lead from vacant lots down to the water’s edge. Tiny manmade waterways await future residents. But before they come, the bankrupt project (once owned by Lehman Brothers) will have to find a new buyer.

[Response to SunCal's letter of October 19, 2009]

Table of Contents

1. Scope of Election Report
2. Regulatory Framework
3. Subsequent DDADisposition and Development Agreement Approval
4. Failure of Initiative and Effect on Maintenance of Base
5. Impact Fee Exactions and Exemptions
6. Public Benefits and Financing
7. $200 Million Public Benefit Cap
8. Fiscal Neutrality
9. Transfer of Rights

TABLE OF CONTENTS
I.....INTRODUCTION
II....INITIATIVE PROCESS
III...DEVELOPMENT AND LAND USE CONTROL MECHANISMS
IV....FISCAL IMPACT
V.....INFRASTRUCTURE
VI....LAND USE
VII...HOUSING
VIII..SCHOOLS
IX.....ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
X......ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION

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In a scathing letter, members of the city's watchdog group pilloried the Navy's clean-up plans for Alameda Point, saying it would leave in place a dangerous cocktail of toxic and radioactive waste that will be brought to the surface by an earthquake, global warming or burrowing animals.

The letter was signed by nine members of the Restoration Advisory Board (RABRestoration Advisory Board (oversees toxic clean up at Alameda Point)) and was sent to various regulatory agencies.