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D. Malcolm Carson's avatar

The San Francisco Bay is obviously a major candidate. South of San Francisco and Oakland, it's a vast expanse where the water is too dirty and cold for swimming, too polluted for fishing, and too muddy for beaches, etc., etc., and of course bordered by some of the most expensive real estate on Earth and a massive housing shortage. Would even the "Save the Bay" types really complain if someone came forward with a viable proposal to fill in 20% of it for high-density housing, parks and transit, with a substantial chunk of the revenues redirected towards cleaning and making more publicly-accesible the rest?

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Dan Elton's avatar

This was an amusing read. I'm hoping to publish something about this too soon.

I disagree with that last point ("low hanging fruit").

While it does seem the low hanging fruit has been taking in NYC, there is a ton of low hanging fruit in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Take a look at Save Our Bay. This one org of environmental extremists claims to have stopped massive projects over the years... it makes me sick to my stomach. https://savesfbay.org/our-impact/

See also https://www.jefftk.com/p/make-more-land

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