History
The Spur Property originally set aside for the Junipero Serra Boulevard expansion project. Local opposition to this plan was intense, since the new freeway would have split Millbrae in half. Accordingly, the project was shelved and the Spur Property remained open land. In 1975, most of the Spur Property was rezoned as open space, closing the land to developers. However, some parts of the property, such as the plot located on the southwest corner of the El Camino Real and Millbrae Avenue intersection, was developed into the Hong Kong Flower Lounge in the 1980s. The rest of the land remained a park, but in early-2004, as Millbrae was bedecked by budget shortfalls, the city proposed to sell parkland in order to resolve its financial issues. Like the highway plan, there was fierce opposition to this action.
Read more about this topic: Spur Trail
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won’t do. It’s an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory can ever be erected on its ruins, which will remain for ever one of the saddest and strangest of all landmarks in the history of twentieth-century thought.”
—Peter B. Medawar (1915–1987)
“For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.”
—Mao Zedong (1893–1976)