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we love, love salt ponds
There is probably nowhere on earth as anti-Trump as silicon valley.
SunnyvaleCA saysThere is probably nowhere on earth as anti-Trump as silicon valley.
If this were true he wouldn't come here to raise money.
I think the local "save the bay" people will be fighting hard to return the salt areas back to "nature."
More housing will be more congestion. It's already too congested here.
That home PC or workstation could be somewhere here in the Bay Area (a two-hour commute from the Bay Area office) or somewhere else like Sacramento or Boise or Bangalore. I
It is kind of funny how Facebook HQ is right by a sewage treatment plant and often reeks of it.
They like ducks more than people.
"The latest [lawsuit] targets a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency decision to exclude almost 1,400 acres of ponds from protection under the federal Clean Water Act, opening them to commercial development."
"The EPA ruled the ponds aren’t “waters of the United States,” a decision California says was made at the behest of urban developers."
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Seriously?!?
An industrial wasteland (salt ponds) in the middle of one of the most expensive global metropolis is such an ecological wonder it needs to be regulated as "waters of the United States".
To prevent... what exactly? Building new housing!
Because we really, really hate new housing and we love, love salt ponds: think of all these bacteria in the brine. Where will they go if we build there.