I know. Sad day when Huell passed away.

Many of these areas would have been subject to sea level rise and flooding. Not a great place to live.

And would be terrible in an earthquake

Oh its no joke. There is a growing movement in these kinds of projects world wide. And anyone can contribute to the process.

I'm glad someone else has common sense. The ocean has risen 130 meters, a little over 400', from the end of the glacial maximum some 20,000 years ago. But knowing this will never be told since it doesn't fit the narrative. Sea level rise is natural and construction along a shore line will be eventually be inundated, just like some ancient ports were inundated centuries ago. None of this means these projects shouldn't be done or aren't worthwhile but the drum beat of doing them because of sea level rise is a falsehood.

How will you ever recover

Well, how about making that easy to access on foot or by bike ? Try accessing the bay trail around Milpitas. Yes, "Dixon Landing Road" and whoever built that. They where probably only thinking "How much area can we pave over for cars only, and can we make them go at highway speeds ?" The answer was "8 super-wide lanes" and "Yes". There's work TBD to make the thing nice all-around and an actually connected trail. Isn't Milpitas also extending the garbage dump there ? That stink worries me more than a few homeless, they are people too after all.

Yet you still live here.

What do you know of the west coast? Do you know most of these operators are IUOE local 3 very highly skilled journeyman operators, What is your expertise?

⚓️ Plenty in Winnemucca 🌈

Yes. And look around you. Your neighborhood street is probably 40' wide, where it could be 18. Every little commercial space has acreages of parking, and even on black Friday, while the roads are clogged, there _still_ is parking ! That's already land for humans. Massive amounts dedicated only to make driving and parking cars cheaper, and needlessly overbuilt, most neighborhoods will not suddenly have skyscrapers instead of single-family houses on them. We don't live in Hongkong, not even close.

@@karlkoehler341 ⚓️ Thanks Karl 🌈 All your Republican strip mall real estate twits on planning commissions… zoning committees… city hall…. County supervisors…. The .. you scratch my back… I’ll scratch yours… committee…. Real estate is all the deal. Trading strip malls is how all those assholes got rich… how do you get to a strip mall? Yep … with a BMW strapped to your ass 🤠

There's a very fine line between class discrimination and racism. Historically the majority of white Americans were not rich, were not slaveowners, and suffered as well. But the rich were still predominantly white. If you look at the entire history of environmentalism - it overlaps with racism and elitism now still works to maintain these bad institutions. You have a few rich white people who own massive acreage, more than they can maintain. Once the have too much land to handle, they make it a government environmental preserve where the public / people of color are not allowed on it. Historically many urban cities around the world were terrible. London was full of pollution. Riding horses meant feces everywhere. People dumped chamber pots out the windows before toilets. So the rich liked to go to pseudo-natural places for excursions. Environmentalism was created by hunters to make sure they had fancy animals to kill so they could mount the heads on their wall. Environmentalism was the guise used to kill "savage" native people to pretend that the land was always like that. If you went back 250 years ago, 500 years ago, or 1,000 years ago - that area would have been full of native Americans and human activity. If you go back 150 years ago that was right after a genocide - which these environmentalists are looking at as the ideal target. Meanwhile the poor of all races suffer as these guises to prevent tens of thousands of affordable houses from being built. $500 million tax payer dollars for a tractor to breach a levee on free donated land.