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ABAG was formed in 1961. In 1970, it issued its Regional Plan, 1970-1990, the Bay Area's first comprehensive regional plan. The document outlined a regional open space plan, regional information systems and technology support, criminal justice and training, water policy and waste collection, and earthquake hazards and planning. [5]
Starting in the 1950s, SFPHA advocated for urban renewal projects in San Francisco's largely Black Fillmore neighborhood that would ultimately displace at least 4,000 people [4] and remove 4,700 homes. In 1959, the San Francisco Planning and Housing Association was reorganized into the San Francisco Planning and Urban Renewal Association.
Pages in category "Landforms of the San Francisco Bay Area" The following 51 pages are in this category, out of 51 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
To finance the projects and promote development in the area, the Transbay Redevelopment Plan was adopted by the City of San Francisco in June 2005. By raising a number of building height limits and selling former freeway parcels, the plan envisions the development of over 2,500 new homes, 3 million square feet of new office and commercial space ...
After the Transbay Plan the city changed the zoning in the Rincon Hill neighborhood and raised height limits. [36] A second version of One Rincon Hill was proposed in response to these zoning changes, in which the height was increased to 60 stories. [37] The second version project was approved by the city on August 4, 2005. [38]
The Jewish Community Center of San Francisco is on California Street at Presidio Avenue in Presidio Heights. [44] The 1933 building was designed in the Mediterranean Revival Style with Art Deco details by Arthur Brown Jr. [45] The neighborhood was the site of the murder of Paul Stine by the Zodiac Killer near the corner of Washington and Cherry.
Woodruff, who had helped design the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, blamed a misunderstanding of the geology of the bay for the massive discrepancy. [4] In 1953 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recommended more detailed study of the plan and eventually constructed a hydraulic model of the Bay Area to test it. The barriers, which were the plan ...
The agency was dissolved on February 1, 2012; in response to the Supreme Court of California decision issued on December 29, 2011, in the case, California Redevelopment Association et al. v. Ana Matosantos. [4] [5] [6] The City and County of San Francisco created the Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure (OCII) as the successor ...