{"id":325,"date":"2014-08-21T21:08:13","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T04:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevingardiner.com\/blog3\/?p=325"},"modified":"2023-11-04T15:01:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T22:01:04","slug":"from-the-archives-foster-city-neighborhoods-1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevingardiner.com\/blog3\/from-the-archives-foster-city-neighborhoods-1-2\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Archives: Foster City Neighborhoods 1 & 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In 2010-2011 we assisted the City of Foster City<\/a> with the existing conditions analysis for\u00a0the Land Use & Circulation Element of its General Plan. This involved lots of photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foster City is a master-planned \u201cnew town\u201d founded in the 1960s on engineered landfill in the marshes of the San Francisco Bay. The city was named after T. Jack Foster, a real estate magnate who owned much of the land comprising the city and who was instrumental in its initial design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The neighborhoods in Foster City are numbered: Neighborhoods 1 through 9, as well as C, L, PT, TC and VP. The street names area also named around themes such as fish, ports and famous explorers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first homes in Neighborhood 1 were completed in 1964. Homes were provided by three developers: Kay Builders, Duc and Elliot and Joseph Eichler<\/a>, chosen by city founder T. Jack Foster to provide variety. Homes from each builder were situated together on each street to provide variety. The sales were brisk and Neighborhood 2 soon followed, with homes by the same three developers. The single family homes were completed by 1969, though apartments and townhouses continued to be developed into the next decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The photos here show Neighborhood 1 and 2, with streets named after famous ships and birds, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 2010-2011 we assisted the City of Foster City with the existing conditions analysis for\u00a0the Land Use & Circulation Element of its General Plan. This involved lots of photos. Foster City is a master-planned \u201cnew town\u201d founded in the 1960s on engineered landfill in the marshes of the San Francisco Bay. The city was named after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-from-the-archives","tag-foster-city","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevingardiner.com\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevingardiner.com\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevingardiner.com\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevingardiner.com\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevingardiner.com\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/kevingardiner.com\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1287,"href":"https:\/\/kevingardiner.com\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions\/1287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevingardiner.com\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevingardiner.com\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevingardiner.com\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}