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Bay Area leaders consider merging region (2013)
- mfringel 10y agoPOSTED: 02/08/2013 11:10:41 AM PST | UPDATED: 3 YEARS AGO
- a_small_island 10y agoSo any day now...
- jessriedel 10y agoDefinitely needs to be labeled in the title.
- mc32 10y agoI really do hope this does happen one day. Abag recommendations are just recommendations and cities and towns have their own prerogatives. If they all merged it could be so much better. Integrated transportation, integrated development plans, integrated politics, etc. Goodbye SF supes with their insular pet projects. Hello integrated urbanism and development, if it ever were to happen, this area could be just so much better. No Bart stopping at the San Mateo border, as initially happened.
- jameswilsterman 10y agoAre people realizing this is from 2013?
- dang 10y agoGood catch. Added to title.
- ChuckMcM 10y agoThese days we'd call the Cupertino/Campbell/Saratoga area "Apple", the San Jose/Fremont/Los Gatos area "Cisco", the Mountain View/Atherton/Alviso area "Google", the Palo Alto/Menlo Park/East Palo Alto area "Facebook" :-) Back when this sort of merger was a bigger thing than it is today there was an analysis of the number of fat bureaucrat jobs that could be eliminated (replacing police chiefs, city managers, fire chiefs, mayors etc) somehow all the wind went out of the excitement.
- xenadu02 10y agoDespite the article being from 2013, there is precedent... New York City was booming and five separate cities voted to merge and become one big NYC. There's no reason the Bay Area couldn't do the same thing.
- soyiuz 10y agoI would love to live in that alternative reality. The area is crippled by small town fragmentation.