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SFGate reports on a on a lot of political horse-trading going on at City Hall right now over the redevelopment plan for the Hunters Point Shipyard.

Says the article:

“The Planning Commission approved the environmental report last month on a 4-3 vote after a 12-hour meeting. The supervisors on Tuesday were hearing an appeal of that decision.

“‘The redevelopment will transform an environmental blight into a new center of jobs, green technology development, affordable housing and parks,’ Mayor Gavin Newsom said in a statement Monday. ‘There’s no project more important to our city’s economic future and (it is) an opportunity we simply cannot afford to pass.’”

But according to Wilma Subra, a toxic materials expert brought in by the opposition, the city simply can’t afford to add more people to an area that is still undergoing the process of toxic cleanup.

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H.R. Smith has reported on tech and climate change for Grist, studied at MIT as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow, and is exceedingly fond of local politics.

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