Open space advocates welcome commission decision
“The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission has moved to initiate legal action against the federal General Services Administration over its decision to use eminent domain to acquire McKay Avenue, the street that leads into Crab Cove Visitor Center and near a site where a developer proposes to build homes.
The commission’s decision, which came during a closed session June 5, follows a citizens group who secured enough signatures to place an initiative on the November ballot to rezone the area as open space.
Developer Tim Lewis Communities acquired the approximately 4-acre site during a June 2011 auction of surplus federal property. But the deal remains in escrow because state officials will not grant utility easement rights for McKay Avenue, which prompted the GSA to launch eminent domain proceedings in April.”
Hegarty, Peter. San Jose Mercury News 11 June 2014.