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  2. National parks in California - Wikipedia

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    Humboldt Redwoods State Park and Big Basin Redwoods State Park are California state Redwood parks which are part of the Northern California coastal forests, but are not a part of the Redwood National and State Parks complex. [87] In 1850, old-growth redwood forest covered more than 2,000,000 acres (8,100 km 2) of the California coast.

  3. California State Parks - Wikipedia

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    California State Parks is the state park system for the U.S. state of California. The system is administered by the California Department of Parks and Recreation, a department under the California Natural Resources Agency. The California State Parks system is the largest state park system in the United States. [5]

  4. List of California state parks - Wikipedia

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    This park has not officially been named but has been classified as a state park. The use of Sutter Buttes in the name was allowed temporarily by the California State Parks Commission in 2004. Currently no public access. [137] Sutter's Fort State Historic Park: State historic park Sacramento: 5.8 2.3 1914 Tahoe State Recreation Area: State ...

  5. Sunset District, San Francisco - Wikipedia

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    The Sunset District is the largest neighborhood within the city and county of San Francisco. [citation needed] Golden Gate Park forms the neighborhood's northern border, and the Pacific Ocean (or, more specifically, the long, flat strand of beach known as Ocean Beach) forms its western border.

  6. Protected areas of California - Wikipedia

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    The largest is Anza-Borrego State Park at 600,000 acres (2,400 km 2), making it one of the largest state parks in the country. The smallest, Watts Towers, owned by the State Park system but managed by the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, [12] is a mere 0.1-acre (400 m 2). Sunset at Bolsa Chica State Beach

  7. Visitacion Valley, San Francisco - Wikipedia

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    This neighborhood featured many windmills for agricultural irrigation and was known as “Valley of the Windmills.” [14] The neighborhood once had the largest Maltese population outside of Malta. [15] In 1907, Southern Pacific Railway constructed the Bayshore Cutoff - a sprawling 200 acres railyard that cut off Visitacion streets from the bay ...

  8. California Lawmakers Might Resurrect Failed 'Urban Renewal ...

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    In practice, these programs have empowered local governments to use eminent domain to seize property to redistribute to developers.

  9. Diamond Heights, San Francisco - Wikipedia

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    1895-built house on Gold Mine Drive. Diamond Heights was a San Francisco Redevelopment Agency project active from 1948 until 1978. [6] It was also the first project of the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association, intended to use its redevelopment powers for land on the hills in the center of the city to be developed with, rather than against, the topography.