A tech startup, Frontier Valley, wants Donald Trump to sign an executive order to "Reclaim the federal plot of land in West Alameda and will approve of the immediate development of Frontier Valley". This includes a 512 acre plot in West Alameda that will have housing for up to 10,000 residents, 3M square feet of office space, 5M square feet of manufacturing space, and an 80 acre waterfront park with views of San Francisco.
"This zone aims to offer the most expedited regulatory code in the US for accelerating deeptech breakthroughs in verticals that are critical to US national security and technological supremacy."
I have my own thoughts. What are yours?
AnimalMuppet•7mo ago
This guy wants Trump to sign an executive order to take back land that has already been given to the city, and then hand it over to him, so that he can build this... whatever it is? Get outta here.
1. I question whether Trump has the legitimate authority to do this, even if he declares a national emergency (as the proposal requests). So it would be tied up in court for an extended period... unless the city doesn't fight it.
2. The city will fight it, unless they think it's going to work, thereby bringing in large numbers of jobs and lots of tax revenue. They might fight it anyway, just because having the Federal government take city land is a really bad precedent.
3. This guy (James Ingallinera, but from all I see he's just some guy) has no particular experience at making something like this actually work. He's just some random guy. Does anybody have any confidence that anything will actually come of this, even if Trump bought it?
4. What does this say about where we are as a country, that we have random people asking the president to take 500 acres from someone else by executive order, and to give it to them? That has way too much of a "random peasants petitioning the king for favor" vibe for my bred-in-a-democracy taste.
dako2117•7mo ago
"This zone aims to offer the most expedited regulatory code in the US for accelerating deeptech breakthroughs in verticals that are critical to US national security and technological supremacy."
I have my own thoughts. What are yours?
AnimalMuppet•7mo ago
1. I question whether Trump has the legitimate authority to do this, even if he declares a national emergency (as the proposal requests). So it would be tied up in court for an extended period... unless the city doesn't fight it.
2. The city will fight it, unless they think it's going to work, thereby bringing in large numbers of jobs and lots of tax revenue. They might fight it anyway, just because having the Federal government take city land is a really bad precedent.
3. This guy (James Ingallinera, but from all I see he's just some guy) has no particular experience at making something like this actually work. He's just some random guy. Does anybody have any confidence that anything will actually come of this, even if Trump bought it?
4. What does this say about where we are as a country, that we have random people asking the president to take 500 acres from someone else by executive order, and to give it to them? That has way too much of a "random peasants petitioning the king for favor" vibe for my bred-in-a-democracy taste.