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The Presidio This vast swathe of greenery has only recently entered the city s repertoire of parklands. It has the potential to be even more amazing than Golden Gate Park, providing that the Right decisions are made by the Presidio Trust, whose job it is to make the new national park financially self sufficient by 2013. The war of words and proposals is raging george montague at the moment, mostly over exactly how commercialized the property should be allowed to become (see p95).