That is amazing!
Do people have a hardon against you? You have the best and most contemporary view and articles.
New money is going to lose their homes.
check this one out.
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A THING OF BEAUTY.!!
I am going to buy the land when it is dirt cheap and build windmills with the IPO's of the future. Screw your public.

One man's thing of beauty is another man's eyesore and scar upon the land.

You are obviously stuck in a rut......try this one on:

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and see how the world is able to build vast networks of travel and with speed while we ponder on the Bay Bridge and the tunnel on the coast which may both be finished while this entire project took less time and left beautiful towns and villages intact.
You can stick with your historic preservations, and your teensy little area which has to make way for the future and not be stuck with mansions and the sequestered politicos who think they have the pulse on world when their's is strictly the stock market and more money.
The last new building in a fifty mile radius which came to mind thanks to one person, was the Trans America Building in San Francisco..
We sold our "country place" in Hillsborough when all the real "Bay Area" old families got away from the influx of the "nouveau".
You definitely have a sense of tired beauty.

No offense to Menlo Park, but in the 50's (not that long ago ) Menlo Park among San Franciscans was almost unknown except for it Junior College, where kids who did not make grades for Stanford were sent.
For the real San Franciscans, we took private trains to the Napa Valley if we went "out of town". The ONLY reason to go South was to homes in Hillsborough which were built by a lot of colorful Italian multimillionaires and attorneys who were always rumored to be affiliated with crime and illegal activities...
Never proven, but the homes were lavish and marble was everywhere.

And people on the Peninsula are preoccupied with planting trees.....

(to line the HSR's path)