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The endangered species act probably had 10x the effect on stifling building as Prop 13. Can you imagine a project like Foster City happening in the current envi
by jibe 7y ago
The endangered species act probably had 10x the effect on stifling building as Prop 13. Can you imagine a project like Foster City happening in the current environment?
https://www.fostercity.org/community/page/creation-foster-city-land https://www.fostercity.org/community/page/creation-foster-ci...
It takes Palo Alto 30 years to do flood mitigation because of a couple frogs in the creek.
If Mountain View needs housing, make more land. It will never happen because there are always myriad obstacles to building.
https://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2010/09/30/landfill-and-liquefaction/ https://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2010/09/30/landfill-and-liquefact...
Look how much of the city of SF was built on landfill. When was the last time a major bay area development was done on reclaimed land?
- Gibbon1 7y agoAfter WWII the Army Core of Engineers had a plan to fill most of the bay.