Chapter 8 LAND DEVELOPMENT 131 Vice President Charles T. Travers oversaw commercial land development. three and one-half miles of “sparkling waterfront property,” wide streets, and a modern street-lighting system. “We literally gave this community 28 acres of land for schools and parks,” Travers wrote. “That land is today worth over $2,000,000; and in return for that, we received only the right to dredge useless sand from the bottom of the San Francisco Bay to fill the property.” Despite Travers’s glowing defense of the company’s South Shore project, “Alameda became an albatross around our necks,” Littlefield later observed. Political power in the city shifted with the resignation of the mayor, he explained, “two or three incumbents were defeated, and soon we were in a battle for our lives.” Utah wanted the land re-zoned from single family to multifamily housing, but the voters said no. Despite this stalemate, by the late 1960s, Utah would sell most of the land at a profit, including its