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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.
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 ...
In practice, these programs have empowered local governments to use eminent domain to seize property to redistribute to developers.
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.
South of Market (SoMa) is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California, situated just south of Market Street. It contains several sub-neighborhoods including South Beach, Yerba Buena, and Rincon Hill. SoMa is home to many of the city's museums, to the headquarters of several major software and Internet companies, and to the Moscone Conference ...
The 1,600-acre (648-hectare) Dos Rios tract in the state's crop-rich Central Valley is set to open June 12 as California's 281st state park. California announces first new state park in a decade ...
The Oleander-Sunset neighborhood is located in central Bakersfield and sits on the southern end of downtown Bakersfield. The Oleander-Sunset Area consists of two neighborhoods: the Lowell Community and the Oleander Community. Oleander-Sunset is bounded by California Avenue, Union Avenue, Highway 58, and Highway 99. [12]
Bayview–Hunters Point has been labeled as San Francisco's "Most Isolated Neighborhood". [5] Redevelopment projects for the neighborhood became the dominant issue of the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s. Efforts include the Bayview Redevelopment Plan for Area B, which includes approximately 1300 acres of existing residential, commercial and industrial ...