Green Options » Treasure Island http://greenoptions.com/tag/treasure-island Posts tagged 'Treasure Island' Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:42:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en The Most Sustainable Future Community in the US http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/04/28/the-most-sustainable-future-community-in-the-us/ http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/04/28/the-most-sustainable-future-community-in-the-us/#comments Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:42:22 +0000 Janel Sterbentz http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/04/28/the-most-sustainable-future-community-in-the-us/ Treasure IslandTreasure Island is a 400 acre island built from fill dredged from the bay for the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition. It is connected to land by the Bay Bridge on both sides leading from San Francisco to Oakland. Loosing money due to the depression and WWII, it was converted into a naval base in 1940. In 1996 it was decommissioned and opened to public control. Today San Francisco’s Department of the Environment is transforming it into the most sustainable community in the US by 2020.

The streets are going to be reoriented at an angle to maximize solar and minimize wind. It will include 6,000 units of high-density housing, without any single detached residences. Thirty percent of the housing will be affordable.

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