Editor,
I’ve been out there at night studying shorebirds at a pond across from the port, and trust me, this is not a place where people should live (“EPA sets stage for Cargill plans” in the March 9-10 edition of the Daily Journal). Almost every night, the ground shook when a train arrived, with steel-on-steel couplings smashing loudly together as the train stopped. Add to that the noise, night and day, from industrial operations when ships are in port.
The Port of Redwood City recently completed a $17 million modernization project, increasing the volume of cargo, and the associated noise from offloading equipment operating more frequently and additional truck traffic. The salt ponds are currently designated as “open space,” which is fortunate because housing here is incompatible with port operations.
City voters rejected Mobil Oil’s Bayfill development plan for Bair Island in 1982, and now the island is transitioning back to tidal marsh as part of the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge. The Cargill ponds can also be restored, and today there are even more reasons to reject plans for Bayfill housing: our recent investment in port infrastructure, impacts from predicted sea level rise to miles of city shoreline and traffic gridlock on Highway 101. Redwood City should continue to build our affordable housing in the right places like downtown, not Cargill’s salt ponds.
Matt Leddy
Redwood City
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