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(4) Inadequate Public Access. Loss of public access to 

 the Bay is a serious problem. Public access is now 

 extremely inadequate and will become even more serious in 

 the future. Of the 276 miles of San Francisco shoreline, 

 scarcely four miles form the boundaries of waterside 

 parks. 



(5) Population and Pollution Problems. The heart of 

 the San Francisco Bay planning problem is people and more 

 people. The population of this area will grow but the 

 Bay cannot. 



Historically, California and the Bay area have experienced 

 a much faster rate of population growth than the rest of 

 the Nation, because so many people have migrated to 

 California from elsewhere in the United States. The 

 Association of Bay Area Governments' projections assume 

 these migrations will gradually decline over the coming 

 decade. The estimates assume that in about 50 years 

 almost as many people will be leaving California every 

 year as will be moving into the State; the U.S. Census 

 Bureau studies have found that the rate of interstate 

 migration is slowing down and the Bureau expects an 

 eventual "state of equilibrium." 



The population of the Bay area, the delta, and the 

 Central Valley, whose rivers and streams feed into the 



