Is any city as threatened by future development as SF and Bay Area?

Is any urban region in the US as threatened by future development as San Francisco and the Bay Area?

I ask this in light of its extraoridnary setting: a huge, wide, open body of water in its core (creating an amphitheatre for views) with hills rising from all portions of the bay as well as mountains in the extremity.

To me, there is no place on earth so designed for man and nature to combine for such extraordinary beauty (there are more mountainous settings such as HK and Rio, but the Bay Area, IMHO, best balances both man and nature and allows them to compliment each other in a functional layout).

What concerns me is that SF and the Bay Area are so extraordinarily beautiful that massive development in the future could hurt the region in a way other metro areas would not experience, with views being blocked and the contour of hills lost (i.e. downtown SF).

Do others see this as a concern and, if so, are there other US metro areas that you see also facing a similiar topographical fate?>