The Bay Area Thinks Big

kernals12

Banned
Point Reyes is a protected national park since 1962, and more importantly there's no river on it, just a handful of creeks (and those are endangered salmon habitat). Chevron needs millions of gallons a day for process water.

The Mad River in Eureka should be plenty adequate to sustain a refinery, even at minimum flow (22 million gallons/day)
Eureka! :)
 

kernals12

Banned
Why stop there? There is a shallow sandbank, the San Francisco Bar, arching several miles out to sea and back again, just outside the Golden Gate. Heck, let's build a dike atop it and reclaim that land too. Granted, it's right atop the San Andreas Fault, but that's just engineering. >;k

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You balk at turning Muir Woods into a gated masterplanned community, but you're gonna put an oil refinery on Pt. Reyes?
In all seriousness though, 5 meters is the maximum for feasible reclamation so that arc outside Golden Gate is safe from me.
 

kernals12

Banned
In 1905, Daniel Burnham drew up this plan for San Francisco
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He wanted to go the full Hausmann for the Foggy City, there'd be lots of Boulevards linking up at great civic centers. There would be lots of monuments and tons and tons of parks, in fact 1/3 of the city was to be park land.

I have mixed feelings about this, on the one hand, San Francisco might today be more beautiful than Paris, but on the other hand, all those parks would take up precious space for housing and those boulevards, being so beautiful, will prevent them from being turned into freeways. And those big intersections would turn into enormous traffic bottlenecks.

EDIT: I was wrong, in fact, Burnham wanted a network of grade separated roads. San Francisco could've had a freeway system in the 1910s!
 
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