[CPEO-BIF] "Brisbane [California] pushes huge development without housing"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[This is a large brownfield site. See my attached report from 2006. -LS]

Brisbane pushes huge development without housing

By C.W. Nevius
San Francisco Chronicle (CA)
September 21, 2016 

The residents of sleepy little Brisbane are extremely excited about developing Baylands, a 684-acre site on the edge of town. In fact, they’ve been getting a little carried away.

When he was running for Brisbane City Council in 2009, Clifford Lentz, who is now mayor, said, “The Baylands project has the potential to change the world. This may sound like an exaggerated statement, but I believe it is true.”

The owner of much of the property is developer Universal Paragon Corp., which wants to build 4,434 homes, condos and apartments in addition to 6.9 million square feet of commercial space.

The city, however, doesn’t like that mixed-use proposal. It’s pushing two alternatives, and neither has housing. One would let developers create a huge commercial and industrial complex with 8.3 million square feet of commercial space and the other would allow for a sustainable commercial community with a wind farm.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/nevius/article/Brisbane-pushes-huge-development-without-housing-9237957.php

Attachment: BrisbaneVisit.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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