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"San Francisco is the largist metropolitan area with the most wilderness/open space around it in the world." This bill specifically applies to development in u
by apsec112 10y ago
"San Francisco is the largist metropolitan area with the most wilderness/open space around it in the world."
This bill specifically applies to development in urban areas only. More development in areas that are already urban will reduce pressure for cities to expand outward, into pristine wilderness. That's why environmentalist organizations like the Sierra Club support infill development: it's a low-water-use, low-greenhouse-gas alternative to suburban sprawl.
- likpok 10y ago> That's why environmentalist organizations like the Sierra Club support infill development Except the Sierra Club in SF, which strongly opposes dense housing.
- DrScump 10y agoThe modern Sierra Club's motives are political, not environmental. That's why they'll have rallies in SF against oil development in the Dakotas while remaining completely silent on groundwater poisoning right here in CA and the fact that (unlike the red oil states), CA has no oil extraction tax.