“A plan for turning San Francisco’s Candlestick Point and the Hunters Point Shipyard into a neighborhood and business district twice the size of Treasure Island – one that could include a new 49ers stadium – fails to focus enough on the area’s natural ecology, according to a report due today from environmental groups.
The 133-page report by ARC Ecology and Bionic, both environmental and planning organizations, suggests that the city and Lennar Corp. have tried to force their development ideas onto an area that includes important wildlife habitat instead of building a project that prioritizes and protects nature.”
“The city’s complete plan is scheduled to get a public airing before two public advisory groups tonight [from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at 1800 Oakdale Ave]. The city will seek the groups’ endorsement of the plan in the next couple of weeks, a significant step toward completing the massive development that 61 percent of city voters endorsed in June.”
∙ City’s Candlestick plan under fire [SFGate]
∙ JustQuotes: The Redevelopment Of Hunters/Candlestick Point [SocketSite]
∙ Results: Proposition 98 Fails/99 Passes, Measure F Fails/G Passes [SocketSite]
“instead of building a project that prioritizes and protects nature.”
Yeah, in cities we should always seek to prioritize and protect nature. We shouldn’t build more in urban areas but instead should build out in the wilderness where it isn’t as important to prioritize and protect nature since there is so much of it.
Is Steve Austin still Chairman & CEO of ARC Ecology and Bionic, or is Jaime Sommers now in charge there?
Please Lennar, hurry up and go out of business before your Candlestick blight spreads.
“…building a project that prioritizes and protects nature.”
And here I thought this area’s natural ecology is a superfund site. Silly me.
All looks good.
Uh, Roger.
I’ve got a blowout. Number three.
Get your pitch to zero.
Engine’s out. I can’t hold altitude.
Correction. Alpha hold is off. Trip select is emergency.
Flightcom, I can’t hold it. She’s breaking up. She’s break…
Vox – This is for you, because I am a HUGE Sox Million Dollar man fan:
“It looks good at NASA One.” Flight Com
“Roger.” B-52 Pilot
“BCS Arm switch is on.” B-52 Pilot
“Okay, Victor.” Flight Com
“Landing Rocket Arm switch is on.” B-52 Pilot
“Here comes the throttle.” B-52 Pilot
“Circuit breakers in.” B-52 Pilot
“We have separation.” Steve
“Roger.” SR-71 pilot
“Inboard and outboards are on.” B-52 Pilot
“I’m comin’ forward with the side stick.” B-52 Pilot
“Looks good.” Flight Com
“Ah, Roger.” B-52 Pilot
“I’ve got a blow-out in damper three!” Steve
“Get your pitch to zero.” SR-71 pilot
“Pitch is out! I can’t hold altitude!” Steve
“Correction, Alpha Hold is off. . . Threat selector is emergency!” B-52 Pilot
“Flight Con! I can’t hold it! She’s breaking up, she’s break—” Steve
Narrator (Harve Bennett): “Steve Austin. Astronaut. A man barely alive.”
Oscar Goldman: “Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world’s first bionic man. Steve Austin will be that man. Better than he was before. Better … stronger … faster.”
Wow! Just for that I’m going to type this post in slow motion while making an er er er er er er sound.