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Appeal Challenges Housing Development on Restorable San Francisco Bay Wetlands


For Immediate Release,
February 8, 2021
Contact:
Lisa Belenky, Center for Biological Diversity, (415) 385-5694, [email protected]
Jana Sokale, Citizens Committee to Complete the Refuge, (510) 229-7550, [email protected]
Appeal Challenges Housing Development on Restorable San Francisco Bay Wetlands
469-unit Luxury Development Threatens Wildlife, Sits in FEMA Flood Zone
NEWARK
, Calif. The Citizens Committee to Complete the Refuge and the Center for Biological Diversity filed a legal appeal today challenging the approval of the “Sanctuary West” housing development that would fill restorable San Francisco Bay wetlands and construct 469 luxury housing units in a Federal Emergency Management Agency flood zone.
The groups said the city of Newark failed to study the environmental harm of filling restorable Bay wetlands adjacent to a national wildlife refuge. The threat of rapidly increasing sea-level rise crea ....

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