SF Gains Upper Hand in bid to fill the bay

From: Kirk Lindstrom (Kirk_69@ix.netcom.com-DeleteThis)
Date: Tue Apr 25 2000 - 07:04:18 PDT


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Front Page Story in SJ Mercury News
No mention of windsurfing.
We need to change this!
Get your letters going!!!

http://www.sjmercury.com/premium/front/docs/ponds25.htm

Here is my letter.

> Dear Paul Rogers
>
> I read your Front Page story in the News Paper today, "SF Gains Upper
> Hand in bid to fill the bay". I wish to compliment you on presenting
> the facts in a balanced way.
>
> I would like to point out you left out a very important item from the
> story. The airport's plans to fill the bay will DESTROY one of the best
> windsurfing locations in the World, Coyote Point.
>
> Coyote Point depends on sailors being able to get to the wind that comes
> through the gap in the mountains that allows fog to roll through in the
> summer (San bruno Gap). Mitigation can not fix this problem. Federal
> Law, I am told, forbids destroying unique recreation areas such as
> this. I think the SF Airport is trying to win the easy battles to get
> the Sierra Club on their side (buying them off with wetlands
> restoration) and then they hope the steam roller effect will run over
> the concerns of windsurfers.
>
> Until the airport figures out how to solve this difficult mitigation
> problem, they are just wasting tax payer money working on the other
> mitigation ideas.
>
> Also, SFO still owes windsurfers mitigation for closing our "Flying
> Tigers" site where I learned to sail. Their plans will also destroy the
> Oyster Point launch where people now use to try to get to the Flying
> Tigers sailing area but it is much more dangerous. We also have
> concerns that the fill will cause much of our "3rd Avenue" site to lose
> it character due to silting and tidal flow changes. (3rd Ave is downwind
> of Coyote Point and often has no wind while Coyote Point has wind due to
> proximity to the San Bruno Gap.)
>
> Are you aware that SFO's expansion plans will only give them enough
> capacity until 2020? I think we need to be looking at 50 year solutions
> and look to how National Airport in Washington DC solved the problem by
> building a new airport, Dulles, away from the crowds. A new airport in
> the Central Valley (Livermore, Antioch, Pleasanton?) would give
> incentive for new building there rather than the over crowded SF Bay
> Area.
>
> Anyway, thanks again for the good story and I hope future stories will
> tell how the airports plans will destroy one of the best windsurfing
> locations in the World. Many of us live here just for the windsurfing.
>
> http://www.sjmercury.com/premium/front/docs/ponds25.htm
>
> --
> best regards
> Kirk Lindstrom
> Los Altos CA 94022

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