[CPEO-BIF] Schlage Lock and Baylands Landfill, San Francisco and Brisbane, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

New vision for two megaprojects: One development of almost 4,000 homes across SF and San Mateo counties

by J.K. Dineen 
San Francisco Chronicle (CA)
September 16, 2019 

Three years ago, a San Francisco supervisor threatened to annex the former Baylands landfill in Brisbane if the bordering town didn’t agree to build housing on the 660-acre site.

Now, not only is Brisbane planning 2,200 units of housing on the former dump, but the builder behind the Baylands development plans to combine it with the neighboring Schlage Lock property, a former lock factory that sits just across the San Francisco line. Together, the project will be one unified neighborhood with almost 4,000 homes across two counties.

The combined 675-acre development will transform both properties — a toxic landfill and a shuttered lock factory — into an urbanist’s dream: a walkable, bikable neighborhood near a Caltrain station and the T-Third Muni streetcar line with 140 acres of open space and an 80-acre lagoon where neighbors can lounge or paddleboard.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/New-vision-for-two-megaprojects-One-development-14441591.php

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org





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