Save The Bay Blog

Cargill & DMB developed a very big headache at the Planning Commission meeting in Redwood City last Tuesday night. Redwood City asked for their residents’ input on the proposed salt pond development, and that is exactly what they got – over three hours of it. The overflow crowd lined the walls, sat on the floors [...]

Sign the petition to stop Cargill and help us meet the goal to get 5,000 signatures by spreading the word to your friends! Things keep getting worse and worse for Cargill and their Arizona-based luxury homes developer in their attempt to fill in 1,436 acres of San Francisco Bay salt ponds. Not only have more [...]

As part of the South Bay Salt Ponds Restoration Project, Save The Bay is working to restore more than 600 acres of tidal wetlands at Eden Landing Ecological Reserve on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in Hayward. This effort, part of Save The Bay’s partnership with the California Department of Fish and Game [...]

By Stephen Knight, Political Director There is a growing rebellion against Cargill’s plan to build a city in San Francisco Bay. In an important opinion piece in the Palo Alto Weekly, Palo Alto City Council member Yoriko Kishimoto calls out Cargill’s plan as a grave threat to the Peninsula’s future: “A proposed development in Redwood [...]

by Stephen Knight, Political Director As our readers know, Cargill and DMB recently submitted an application to Redwood City, proposing to build up to 12,000 housing units on retired salt ponds that should be restored to natural wetlands. Before reviewing Cargill’s development proposal, the Redwood City Council is working to finalize a new general plan. [...]