Environmentalists allege Richmond ignored hazards with Campus Bay Project approval

A group of Bay Area environmental and community organizations has sued the city of Richmond, claiming last month’s approval of the mixed-use Campus Bay Project violates state environmental quality standards and ignores science on rising sea levels.

The suit was filed last Wednesday in Contra Costa County Superior Court to challenge the project, which would include between 2,000 and 4,000 houses on 90 acres on Richmond’s southern waterfront just east of the Marina Bay residential development and UC Berkeley’s Richmond Field Station and northwest of Point Isabel.