Yuppification is an inexorable process as the developers have the juice at the City Council level.

Plans are afoot as we speak to surround Dairymens Feed in Petaluma with housing. What do you think those new residents are going to say when another smelly fire breaks out in the grain elevator? Industrial development of the kind that provides railroad revenue is not likely to occur in the Northbay.

The best way to preserve the southern part of the NWP ROW is to convert it to electric light rail, aka streetcars. I realize that messes with all the fans' tacit hopes to run steam locomotives on a ressuscitated NWP of the glory days. Maybe north of Willits but NCRA-NWP and SMART ain't gonna make it - insufficient business and/or too irrelevant to justify the large subsidies required to keep them going.