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We should be restoring our natural wetlands to cope with sea level rise and climate change - not building more structures where we are supposed to have transition space between land and bay!! Please if you must build more, build close to existing rail and bus lines, and closer to the center of towns and suburbs. Not where the space needs to be wild. Thank you for reading, Darshana Maya Greenfield On Feb 12, 2019, at 11:22 AM, 'Carol Cross' via Fossil Free Midpeninsula wrote: Tnstead, consider the environment's -impact on Harbor view! At the hearing last night, almost no one mentioned the effect climate change is going to have on the east of gayshore area. I would like to draw your attention to an interactive map at: vel Rise and Coastal Floodina Impacts Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding Impacts Lev-! kise VlC6vcr: View prr;iected sea Eeval rise at any coastal ioc�iticm uP [o 6 )I itttmd-mioll trurn tlo... Looking at that map, you can see how our area will be impacted by sea level rise, currently projected to be at two feet above present levels by 2050. (And of course, sea level rise doesn't stop there.) Moreover, scientists are becoming more alarmed every day, with articles describing how the effects of thawing methane at the poles and dark sea water absorbing more heat is affecting ice melt in the same regions to contribute to a much faster warming/melting than previously projected. The takeaway is obvious: Harbor view will be imperiled only a few years after it's built. The solution is to not allow building there! it is truly a recipe for disaster. Thank you, Carol Cross Re: climate change: Building a world that works for everyone is exactly what we should refocus our efforts on doing when we read scientific studies that scare the hell out of us. As the researchers point out, there's still time that we have to take advantage of. That's why it's say drams important to act boldly. Now. Eric Holthaus 2