[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Treasure Island, San Francisco "reality check"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Treasure Island utopia gets reality check

John Coté
San Francisco Chronicle (CA)
December 28, 2009

Treasure Island didn't even exist 75 years ago. And if sea levels rise, 
significant steps will need to be taken to keep the former naval base 
from vanishing into San Francisco Bay.

But now the 400-acre man-made island is closer than ever to becoming San 
Francisco's newest neighborhood through a partnership between the city 
and private developers to create an environmentally sustainable utopia 
with about 6,000 homes, a 60-story skyscraper and its own organic farm.

Skeptics question whether a recently announced deal that will pay the 
Navy at least $55 million to transfer most of the island and part of 
neighboring Yerba Buena Island to the city is a good idea.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2009/12/28/MNNL1B917Q.DTL

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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: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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