People Versus Chevron  By: Daphne Zuniga, Co-authored by Bill
Gallegos Tuesday, November 10, 2009   Atchison Village would
seem like a great place to live. It's a pleasant-looking
neighborhood in Richmond, California on the east shore of San
Francisco Bay. The residents are diverse. Some have lived there
since the village was built in 1941. Others have discovered the
neighborhood more recently. It's an ethnically diverse
neighborhood with a comfortable feel, barbecues on the weekend
and neighbors who know each others' names, with home prices far
more affordable than most places in the Bay Area.  But there's a
downside: Atchison Village has a bad neighbor. You know the kind
we're talking about, right? The kind of neighbor that seems not
to care about property values, or endangering the welfare of the
people around them. The kind of neighbor that lets their garbage
blow into other people's yards. The kind of neighbor that makes
messes and refuses to admit it or clean them up.  In most
places, behavior like that