It’s kind of wild to me that modern environmental impact reports don’t consider things from the perspective of climate change, as in, is this defensible land? Will *not* building this effectively displace potential residents to fire or flood zones, etc.? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/11/us/houston-flooding.html …
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
I work down right next to Moffett Field, and the amount of building that has been going on there is tremendous....ly wasteful, if you consider now they have to keep that land above water.
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Replying to @archaica
Yeah it's hard because the deeper inland parts of Mountain View, peninsula won't allow anything. If it's mostly office, probably not as bad as residential.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
"not as bad" in what way? I don't think the Jay Paul company is going to be super glad if Sunnyvale throws up its hands and goes,"welp, guess nature gets its own back" in thirty years. There's an implicit guarantee government will keep the site viable http://www.moffett-towers.com/location.htm
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Replying to @archaica @kimmaicutler
(Aside: selling "at the nexus of two freeways" as a positive is a definite "the frogurt is cursed" move)
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If it’s office, as in Google offices, it’s tied to a giant $850B which may have some capital for mitigation. If it’s residential, it’s someone’s life savings and requires coordinating potentially thousands of people and their life savings to *do* something, which is harder.
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