[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "Whether development should be allowed in the Presidio isn’t as cut and dried as the typical all-or-nothing San Francisco [CA] debate"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Should San Francisco build a Trump ‘Freedom City’ in one of its iconic parks?
Whether development should be allowed in the Presidio isn’t as cut and dried as the typical all-or-nothing San Francisco debate

By Benjamin Schneider
San Francisco Chronicle (CA)
December 19, 2024

The Presidio is one of the finest jewels in San Francisco’s crown. To many locals, the idea of any new development in this exquisite public and natural area would be pure sacrilege. So, it’s no surprise that the prospect of President-elect Donald Trump redeveloping the Presidio into a “Freedom City” would elicit an impassioned rejoinder from local commentators. 

Whether development should be allowed in the Presidio, however, is not as cut and dried as the typical all-or-nothing San Francisco debate. 

The Presidio, a former military base decommissioned in 1994, is a multifaceted district. It contains wild coyote-filled forests, landscaped parklands, restored historic buildings and vacant, crumbling military structures. It also welcomed a large ground-up office development in the recent past. 


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For the entire column, see
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/sf-presidio-freedom-city-housing-19986783.php

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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