[tupocc] Bayview Hunters Point Redevelopment VOTE POSTPONED MAY

We need to show up at City Hall again next week May 16th to support Bayview Hunters Point residents...Call your Supervisor (see below for #'s)

After more than two hours of passionate public testimony, the Board of Supervisors put off a decision on the controversial Bayview-Hunter's Point Redevelopment Plan for one week at Tuesday's meeting. The postponement will allow supervisors to consider several late amendments to the plan and the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency to respond to community concerns.

The plan, which has been in the works for over a decade, would aim to "revitalize" the downtrodden Bayview-Hunter's Point neighborhoods by fostering development of new business and housing in the area, specifically targeting the Third Street business district. The Bayview-Hunter's Point neighborhoods include the largest concentration of African Americans in San Francisco.

"Affordable housing is just a euphemism for middle-income housing.," said Terri Baum. "We don't need 75% of all new housing built to be market-rate in any neighborhood. The people in Bayview-Hunter's Point think that there's a conspiracy to drive them out and I think they're right."

"This plan is a slightly slower path than the path that we're currently on to the gentrification of the southeast quadrant of the city," agreed Supervisor Chris Daly. 'I don't think that the path that we're on or this plan saves this low-income community. The redevelopment mechanisms are just an elaborate sort of window dressing."

"Redevelopment is not bad. The redevelopment agency is bad. What redevelopment should do is take all the benefits created by the area and put them directly in the hands of the community,"said Michael Strauss. "Too often, residents are treated like incompetent children with city officials as their parents."

Let's flood the Supervisors' phone lines with calls! Tell them to vote NO on the Bayview Hunters Point Redevelopment Plan - or, at the least, to table it or refer it back to Redevelopment. Here are the phone numbers for all 11 San Francisco Supervisors and a link to figure which district you are in:

http://www.sfgov.org/site/redistricting_index.asp?id=5853

Jake McGoldrick 554-7410 District 1
Michela Alioto-Pier 554-7752 District 2
Aaron Peskin 554-7450 District 3
Fiona Ma 554-7460 District 4
Ross Mirkarimi 554-7630 District 5
Chris Daly 554-7970 District 6
Sean Elsbernd 554-6516 District 7
Bevan Dufty 554-6968 District 8
Tom Ammiano 554-5144 District 9
Sophie Maxwell 554-7670 District 10
Gerardo Sandoval 554-6975 District 11

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