NPS/Frank Schmidt
News Launch Date: March 9, 2020
SAN FRANCISCO—Located inside of five miles of the Golden Gate Bridge, the Presidio, Sausalito, and Fort Baker, Hawk Hill lies inside of the well known Conzelman street scenic ignore corridor.
This previous armed forces street lies overlooking the north conclusion of the Golden Gate Bridge in the Marin Headlands Unit of Golden Gate Countrywide Recreation Place. It is obtainable by way of car or truck, bicycle, or on foot, and appeals to locals and visitors from all around the world.
The Countrywide Park Provider (NPS) is at this time preparing section three of the Hawk Hill Visitor Enhancement task. This stage will rehabilitate historic buildings, increase academic options through enhanced wayfinding and interpretive products, strengthen sustainability and accessibility of overlooks and seating, and safeguard normal and cultural means.
During setting up for Section 3, NPS will consider solutions for cleanup of hazardous products and soil contamination at the web-site, which remain from its previous energetic armed service period. Site cleanup routines remaining regarded will protect web-site personnel and readers and supply defense for special habitat which supports a huge array of wildlife, such as the endangered Mission blue butterfly.
The NPS will be issuing a Neighborhood Involvement Strategy, in compliance with the federal Thorough Environmental Response Payment and Liability Act (CERCLA) as a public reference to seek out local community involvement and comment, in the course of this process.
The NPS is committed to encouraging community participation and furnishing opportunities for communication in between the park and the affected group, fascinated stakeholders, and community people in the course of the environmental investigation and cleanup functions at the website.
Remember to visit the Golden Gate Countrywide Recreation Spot Planning webpage for more info about this task: https://www.nps.gov/goga/getinvolved/parkwide-planning.htm, or the NPS Park Arranging webpage at https://parkplanning.nps.gov/hawk_hill_haz_handle to present comment on this proposal.
Pursuing community comment and review the NPS expects to start out things to do at the site within just the future yr. The Nationwide Park Services will training reaction authority by establishing an Engineering Evaluation/Cost Examination to be concluded by December 2020. This method will solicit stakeholder responses, build web site risk examination, and create the requirements for identifying the appropriateness of numerous mitigation solutions.
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Golden Gate Countrywide Recreation Region, located in and around San Francisco, is the most visited park in the Nationwide Park Provider, hosting more than 15 million website visitors in 2018. A assorted park with considerable recreational possibilities, as nicely as pure, cultural, and scenic means, it encompasses far more than 80,000 acres across a few counties. The park also administers two other NPS locations, Fort Point Nationwide Historic Website, a Civil War era fortress built on the northernmost issue of land in San Francisco, and Muir Woods National Monument, which includes an outstanding stand of outdated progress coastal redwoods in Marin County.
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