[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Treasure Island, San Francisco development plan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Treasure Island: ambitious plan for development
John King
San Francisco Chronicle (CA)
April 17, 2011

No spot in the Bay Area has the obvious development potential of  
Treasure Island. None has such obvious pitfalls.

The 403-acre oval in the middle of the bay boasts a uniquely  
captivating setting, but its soil could turn to jelly in a major  
earthquake. Residents would live just 1.5 miles from downtown San  
Francisco, but the journey by car involves the perennially sluggish  
Bay Bridge.

None of this deters the boosters, who tout a project that in its own  
way would be as ambitious as the Golden Gate International  
Exposition, better known as the 1939 World's Fair, for which the  
island was created.

The sparsely developed former Navy base, which now houses 2,300  
people, would house upward of 19,000 residents in 8,000 residential  
units lining the west and south shores of the island; an additional  
230 acres would become open space ranging from ball fields to  
seasonal wetlands. Ferries would offer a 13-minute commute to  
downtown San Francisco. A 20-acre urban agricultural park might  
include greenhouses and orchards.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/04/17/ 
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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
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