spdrun, those large swaths of “vacant land” in the peninsula (and in ALL bay area counties) you’re seeing on your map-reading expeditions from your comfy perch in Manhattan, NYC are protected. By that I mean they are National or state preserves and/or parkland. As such, they will NEVER be built on so there goes your “gentrification theory.”
No need to be insulting. I know about the parkland, which is why I was speaking strictly to already-developed areas like EPA and parts of Oakland.[/quote]
Well, I stand corrected, spdrun. Apparently Santa Clara is currently undergoing massive “gentrification.” Acc to the link Happs provided, several multifamily and commercial projects are currently underway there.
I wasn’t trying to “insult” you. I was going to ask you to obtain a “relief map” of the SF Peninsula to study, but sadly, I don’t think there are any more map stores in the entire country left. A relief map of this area (with overlays) would be extremely interesting, valuable and helpful to have, IMO. It is so hard to explain how it is impossible or impractical to get from “here to there” on the SF peninsula. It is a very unique stretch of land … and save for just a very few micro-areas along the bayfront, it is entirely natural and not dredged, filled in or otherwise man-made. As such, leaders of SM and SC counties have historically and repeatedly chosen to keep as much of this area as possible ecologically preserved … as it should be.
