It took two decades of patient, vigilant community organizing to open a prime piece of San Francisco Bay shoreline to the public in Richmond, Calif.
Just up the road from Oakland and Berkeley, the city of Richmond is a minority and low-income community of 115,500 people — mainly Latino, Black and Asian American — with a major Chevron refinery whose pollution has been an ongoing source of conflict . It’s also home to an active port and soon — finally — a world-class park. Point Molate exemplifies the struggle for environmental justice in under-parked and over-polluted minority communities.
Despite the promise of thousands of jobs and significant annual revenues, Richmond residents feared that the project would generate crime, encourage problem gambling and create constant traffic jams. In 2010, the city’s voters rejected the casino proposal 58% to 42%. With the casino defeated, another development plan emerged: a luxury housing estate — as many as 1,450 homes and condos with price tags in the $1.2-million range, for buyers with incomes around $250,000.
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