[Carfreeliving] Treassure Island mass development, green?

[Jason Henderson]

I agree with Josh on the wetland/ farming angle. Sticking thousands of 
people on Treasure Island is negligence. This is not real land, and will 
get wacked in a few years by sea-level rise. It will not be 
"sustainable" from a transport perspective. The ferry idea is not going 
to cut it. They use a lot of diesel and do not carry a lot of people. 
RM2 made it clear that Muni and other transit agencies were denied funds 
while ferries got huge subsidies for carrying far fewer people daily. 
This development will be car dependent and the people out there will get 
angry at their mobility situation - and demand more parking in SF.  
Eventually the  "demand" to live on the island village will gradually 
decline and it will be a boondoggle. Or maybe a ghetto.
 How much parking is proposed, by the way? 1:1?

-jh
 

Joshua Switzky wrote:

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>I think John King hit on an important point: no towers should come close in
>height to the Bay Bridge towers. The bridge is one the most important
>structures and visual symbols of the bay area, and we shouldn't muddle it
>up with other towers in the bay nearby. I'm not a fan of towers in the bay
>at all the view from the east bay to SF and vice versa is our postcard view
>-- the flat expanse of the bay connected by a grand bridge with a city
>rising up dramatically on either side. To stick a bunch of towers in the
>middle of that, competing with all the other elements, is just
>short-sighted. And in fact, they are not necessary to achieve the density
>sought, which could be achieved with a few more 8 story buildings.   I lean
>more to turning the entire island into a wetland wildlife/bird preserve. I
>do like the organic farming idea.
>-j
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>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/12/15/DDG7DG7HVP1.DTL
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