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"The 49ers still have faith that Santa Clara \u2014 not San Francisco \u2014 will build a new stadium for the NFL team to move into by 2012, despite a decision by officials for the Silicon Valley city Tuesday that would delay putting the idea before voters until 2009.San Francisco, which has proposed building a new state-of-the-art stadium for the team at the former site of the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, remains the team\u2019s \"viable backup\" plan, team spokesman Pete Hillan said.Mayor Gavin Newsom expressed skepticism Wednesday, saying that the decision Tuesday night by the Santa Clara City Council to extend negotiations with the team until February of next year made a 2012 timeline \"impossible.\"\"The delay of the vote in Santa Clara, make no mistake, is a big blow to those efforts,\" Newsom said. \"The only place youcould possibly open a stadium in the state right now is in San Francisco in 2012.\"Earlier this month, San Francisco voters passed Measure G, which set in motion redevelopment plans in Bayview-Hunters Point that include up to 10,000 housing units, commercial space, parks and a 22-acre parcel for a stadium in the team chooses to stay in San Francisco."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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