The Bay Area is often associated with two things – the beauty of its natural landscape, and the skyrocketing costs of living in it. Of late those have been seen as being in tension. Should the ridge separating Pittsburg from Concord be developed for 1,650 new houses, or preserve the open space and “watch people move to Texas,” as the San Francisco Chronicle headline put it. Should UC Berkeley be allowed to enroll more students, or does the potential environmental impact of those students on current residents of the city of Berkeley outweigh the benefits? Should the A’s build a stadium and housing at Howard Terminal, or should development on the Oakland waterfront be blocked for bringing environmental harm to a community that’s long been consigned to high air and water pollution?
May 18, 2022
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Bay Nature Magazine