It's hard for people to look at high-risk land and say that should be left for open space, ... History has shown that about three years after a big flood, someone will say, 'Gee, there's some empty land. We ought to develop it.'

for Congress and states to say maybe there are areas of coastal land where we simply shouldn't build.

That's probably the best Cinderella run in the history of the district tournament.

By identifying those contaminants, we take out those question marks. Sometimes people put off coming downtown and assembling land because of the concern over contaminants. We are going to make it easier to attract developers downtown.

We're trying to attract horse people who have never really shown in the horse show setting along with those who do show.

Any for-profit entity of (Google's) magnitude using land owned by the people should not escape paying their fair share.