Do people 'need' more land? Well if the median house price in SF is $1.7 million, and nurses, cops, firemen, teachers, etc can't afford to live in a city and raise kids, then yes, people need the land.
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Bay Area housing: not enough of it; insanely expensive. Rancho Corral de Tierra along Highway 280: colossal amount of land, the size of San Francisco, could house millions. Still undeveloped. Why?
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BTW thanks for all the insights on this issue; I've actually learned a lot about the Bay Area challenges from these replies.
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Even easier solutions exist! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster_City,_California#History …
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I wonder how much of an unacknowledged problem it is that most newly-built homes and apartments are so ugly. Would people protest all new development if it was going to be truly beautiful?
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But why? People need the land.
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Stanford's campus in the middle of Silicon Valley is 8,180 acres, much of it empty. Why not build landfill on the mudflats of the southern San Francisco Bay next to Silicon Valley and build big apartment complexes there?
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I'll bite: nobody trusts Cal engineers to build earthquake proof high rises on terrafirm let alone on reclaimed land.
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Open, undeveloped space >> urban/suburban sprawl Plenty of undeveloped land in the middle of Nevada for the "expansion" silliness
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