The framework marks a structural departure from Earth-0 planning models, which center freeway traffic capacity. Here, the question planners ask first is whether the terminals are accessible and whether the bay is passable. A parallel policy debate continues over a trade-off that has no clean resolution: the absence of the Nimitz Freeway has measurably cooled West Oakland by four to six degrees, but the ferry terminal development concentrated along that same waterfront now sits in higher flood and surge exposure. Neither benefit cancels the other's risk.