Sejal Choksi-Chugh, executive director of the environmental nonprofit San Francisco Baykeeper, said she hopes none of the development ideas ever come to fruition. She believes the island should go to the birds — literally — and become a sanctuary for gulls, herons and cormorants.

“I’m opposed to some wealthy billionaire just purchasing it because they want bragging rights,” she said. “It seems like a pointless exercise.”

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Source: New York Times