| How'd that strategy go? Build housing after the Marina, but no Marina. That might work in Pacifica. |
Daily News/Bonnie Eslinger, Staff Writer, 3/25/14. "Redevelopment of Pete's Harbor can proceed, Redwood City council decides.
"Following an outpouring of public support for the proposed redevelopment of Pete's Harbor into a 402-unit waterfront residential community, the Redwood City City Council on Monday night unanimously denied an appeal by project opponents to block it. Councilman John Seybert said the market-rate apartments proposed by developer Paul Powers are a "great project" and would be a "major gain for housing in the city."
.... The Redwood City Planning Commission approved the development on Feb. 4, long after tenants of the harbor's marina were evicted. A
group of those tenants, including some who had lived aboard their
boats, organized under the name San Francisco Bay Marinas for All to
fight the development and appealed the planning commission's approval..... The appeal also sought to delay the housing development
until the marina is rebuilt, noting that a marina promised for Powers'
nearby One Marina development never materialized." Read article.
Photograph from Dusters, the catch 22 of dust 514.
Posted by Kathy Meeh
8 comments:
We can build a marina in the quarry. Kill 2 birds and give the enviro's a heart attack.
No, you can't build a marina in the quarry. It's an engineering impossibility.
4:53
Are you an engineer?
I think not!
What does the lack of interest tell you? Everything we need to know about that idea. Probably about the quarry in general.
It was the Army Corps of ENGINEERS that said you can't build a marina in the quarry.
But go ahead, knock yourself out if you're an engineer and you think it's possible. I'd like to see your specs and drawings. And your cost estimates, especially for building a breakwater in the open ocean. Also explain how you're going to dredge out the marina to below sea level. Then calculate the maintenance costs of the breakwater and dredging.
It's so easy to push your buttons
A marina in the quarry would probably give the enviros a heart attack. But when it takes away the break at Rockaway, the surfers would find who did it and give them all heart attacks.
There were several proposals kicked around in the 1970's concerning building a marina in Pacifica. One proposal was to build it at Rockaway, while another was to build it at the south end of Linda Mar Beach. I think I recall that the feasibility of a Rockaway marina was questionable from the start. Linda mar was more feasible, but obviously neither marina was built. Could it have been done; perhaps if enough money and effort was thrown at ir; perhaps not. Could those huge winter swells streaming into Rockaway be diverted by a breakwater? There are still likely a few really, really old time surfers who still recall surfing fair sized waves at the two piers inside the Princeton breakwater before the Army Corp of Engineers turned that marina almost into a lake. Nary a ripple gets past those rocks these days.
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