[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: San Francisco's plans for Treasure Island

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Treasure Island plan a trove full of promise

John King
San Francisco Chronicle
April 12, 2010

Beware of putting too much stock in glossy development plans, but if 
Treasure Island is reborn along the lines being touted, the result will 
be a neighborhood like none the Bay Area has seen.

Only about 110 of the artificial island's 404 acres will be urban, but 
they'll be filled with more than 7,000 housing units along streets 
where, for the most part, pedestrians have priority over cars. Land will 
be farmed alongside ball fields. Solar panels will cover more roofs than 
not.

And high-rises will sprout in the middle of the bay - as many as 25 
rising at least 18 stories, crowned by a central tower that exceeds the 
height of the Bay Bridge by more than 100 feet.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/04/12/MN9C1CS5V5.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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