Dear Supporter,

In a recent press release from Cargill's Arizona-based development partners, DMB Associates announced that they were delaying their Redwood City bay-fill project due to the tremendous amount of "feedback" the project has received, coming back with a revised plan sometime next year.

The project is already significantly delayed due to significant opposition from Redwood City residents and the entire region to paving over more than a thousand acres of San Francisco Bay, and it has been plagued with numerous serious issues from the start, including a lack of a credible water plan and mind-numbing traffic numbers.

Yet, rather than acknowledge that a restorable Bay salt pond isn't the right place for development, Cargill/DMB have tried to spin this latest delay as an indication that they are "listening" to the community -- as if changing the number of housing units or moving the pavement around might somehow make it acceptable to build in the Bay.

"If they’re listening to us, it's about 10:1 against the project based on the number of comments," resident Dan Ponti of the newly-launched group, Redwood City Neighbors United, said in a recent article.

There is little evidence that the message is sinking in. In their announcement, Cargill's developer concentrated on misrepresenting the outpouring of opposition as if it were simply a few suggestions that there be “a possible reduction in the number of houses."

Clearly, DMB is just planning to steamroll ahead -- relying on their expensive public relations and army of lobbyists and consultants. It is up to all of us to make it clear that the Bay should be restored, not developed -- and to re-double our efforts to end this development proposal for good.

Please spread the word! Download and circulate our petition, forward this email to somebody new, post about this on Facebook and Twitter, and/or write a letter to the editor.

Sincerely,

Stephen Knight
Save The Bay Political Director