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Alameda Community Radio (ACR) recently interviewed Professor Paul Kibel of San Francisco's Golden Gate University School of Law. In the interview, Kibel, who also co-directs the Center on Urban Environmental Law (CUEL), expressed his concern about the future of Alameda Point.

He told ACR that the Navy appears to be fast-tracking the approval of clean-up remedies to enable the transfer of land and the construction of new buildings. This has resulted in a six-foot-high chain-link that encloses Sites 1 and 2 and a scattered network of 30 10-foot-high white venting pipes. That fence divides Alameda Point into two distinct parts: the land east of the fence is under the city's jurisdiction; the federal portion stretches west of that fence to the San Francisco Bay.

Kibel is afraid that fast-tracking overlooks key goals of the city's open space plan that have been on the books for years.