Word: westbay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...corporation called West-bay Community Associates announced plans to develop a residential-commercial-recreational complex along 27 miles of presently submerged bayshore south of San Francisco. Three days later, the state's Bay Conservation and Development Commission released another plan that was a clean-cut challenge to the Westbay proposal. The only bay filling that might henceforth be justified, it said, would be for projects "providing substantial public benefits" that could not be gained otherwise-port terminals, airport extensions and "close-to-home" recreation facilities like marinas, beaches, parks and fishing piers...
Despite the timing, the B.C.D.C. report was not specifically aimed at the Westbay development, which in fact is considerably more enlightened than some others that have been proposed. The commission's mandate, set in 1965, grew out of a 1959 Army Engineers report that predicted an eventual filling of at least another 248 square miles of bay, in effect reducing much of it to little more than a deep-channel San Francisco river...
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