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Re:Researchers Find ‘Significant Rates’ of Sinking Ground in... by BurningFrog on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @08:18PM (#33171039)
A huge part (half? 1/3?) of the Bay Area is nature reserves of various kinds, but most of that land would be perfectly suitable for housing construction, if it was legalized.
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Re:Researchers Find ‘Significant Rates’ of Sinking Ground in... by shagie on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @08:26PM (#33171114)
Ok... double the space allocated to the cities and you're still at about 1/3 of the greater Huston area.

Pave every single square foot of the nine counties that make up the Bay Area including Marin, Sonoma, and Napa... and you're still 3,000 square miles short of the greater Huston area.

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Re:Researchers Find ‘Significant Rates’ of Sinking Ground in... by BurningFrog on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @08:49PM (#33171288)
My disagreement was about "a lot of land that you can't reasonably build a city on". I don't doubt your numbers.

That said, Tokyo, which is a wonderful city to live in, and on more earthquake prone land, has 14 million people on 5,194 square miles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo.

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Re:Researchers Find ‘Significant Rates’ of Sinking Ground in... by pixl97 on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @09:36PM (#33171673)
Ah yes, bulldoze nature to make it more desirable...
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Re:Researchers Find ‘Significant Rates’ of Sinking Ground in... by BurningFrog on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @10:25PM (#33172015)
Pretty much all human homes are on on what used to be wild nature.

To me, human homes is one of the most worthy uses of land.

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