The absolute last thing they should do is require one parking spot per unit - there should be far less parking than that.

Treasure Island Project Is Katrina, Love Canal, Japan, Tuvalu & the Big Dig - In A Blender

Transportation impossibilities are only a crest of the iceberg above the looming massive body of this unbelievably hazardous boondoggle project.

Last week, SF Planning Department staff openly admitted when pressed in hearings, that they and the developers have left the possibility of a major Japan-like Alaskan tsunami completely out of their project design. They said that to include it would hurt the financial viability of the project, and claimed that since such a tsunami would be a very rare event, it is a matter for 'emergency planning' and should not be included in the 'design planning' for the project itself. As icing on this recipe-for-disaster cake, the project's plans call for evacuation of thousands of people from the island during a tsunami, on ferries! Anyone who watched the video of what happened in the Santa Cruz harbor during the recent Japan tsunami can immediately grasp what an insane idea this is.

Planners have also pursued the same disastrous and cynical cost-based planning in regard to dangerous sea level rise; designing for a 3 foot rise by 2100, when the consensus climate science is now predicting at least a 6.5 foot worst case scenario by 2100.

Add to all of this the extensive radioactive contamination on the site which is being swept under the rug by developers and the Navy (see http://tinyurl.com/23wnjyp ) and this project looks like nothing less than Katrina, Love Canal, Japan, Tuvalu and the Big Dig all wrapped up into one big catastrophic package. And this is a package designed to put the City of San Francisco into bankruptcy if the 'very rare' emergency that somehow doesn't have to be included in 'design planning' actually takes place.

Why are all of these obviously outrageous planning nightmares being overlooked? Because the lead developer, Lennar Corporation (which would have gone bankrupt without its recent 2.75 billion dollar federal bailout from the FDIC) needs to show its skittish stock holders that it has multi-billion dollar condo projects in the pipeline. And Lennar is leaning -hard- on our public officials with every bit of lobbying largess that it can muster.

So San Francisco and thousands of its residents are being seriously endangered to enhance the value of a corporation's stock ticker.

The Board of Supervisors and the Mayor should put a stop to this out of control freight train before it hits a mountain wall.