The seven-member council voted unanimously to terminate all discussions about the "LNG'' facility, accept the withdrawal of the proposal's former partners, Bechtel Enterprises Holdings Inc. and Shell U.S. Gas and Power Co., and proceed with plans for a regional park on the site.
First Shell, then Bechtel withdrew from the project within two weeks of each other last month. There was intense community opposition from a Vallejo citizen's group concerned with the health and safety of the project they feared could be a target of a terrorist attack.
Vallejo spokesman Mark Mazzaferro says that about two hundred people attended last night's meeting and gave the council a standing ovation when the vote was taken.
Light industry is planned on 100 acres that still need to be cleaned of contaminants, and a park is proposed on 97 acres that had been cleaned up after the Navy abandoned the former shipyard in 1996.
Details for the park and light industry under the Mare Island Reuse Plan will take years, Mazzaferro says.
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