Save The Bay Blog

We have reached a huge milestone today in our campaign to stop Cargill’s development in Redwood City. Cargill/DMB’s enormously controversial and misguided plan to build thousands of houses in San Francisco Bay is dead! Yesterday afternoon, it was announced that the Redwood City City Council will consider a recommendation to terminate Cargill/DMB’s massive bay fill development, [...]

We are excited to introduce a new feature — Weekly Roundup — where we will post news stories from the week related to Save The Bay’s work. We’ll continue to post breaking news on Facebook and Twitter, so connect with us to stay informed. And come back here every Friday to peruse the week’s news [...]

Saying, “It’s about the 99% fighting back against the 1%,” a new group was formed this week by members of Redwood City’s local chapter of the Occupy movement. Calling themselves “Occupy Saltworks,” the residents have issued a 12-point statement opposing agribusiness giant Cargill’s massive bayfill development project on the grounds that it would, amongst other [...]

“The San Francisco Bay salt ponds in which Cargill’s proposed new city would be built was once wetlands, and could still be turned into around 1,400 acres of wetlands,” writes Henry Ruehl, as he lists many critiques of Cargill’s development in The Daily Journal. Plus, Hermosa Beach passes a polystyrene ban. And as San Francisco [...]

In the news this week, Redwood City residents are demanding changes to ensure a fair and transparent environmental review process for the controversial and increasingly troubled Cargill/DMB bay fill scheme (Critics question why Redwood City lets developer control environmental studies of Saltworks project). When Redwood City Neighbors United learned recently that all but two of the more [...]