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The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a region of California surrounding and including the San Francisco Bay. The Association of Bay Area Governments defines the Bay Area as including the nine counties that border the estuaries of San Francisco Bay, San Pablo Bay, and Suisun Bay: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, Sonoma, and San Francisco.
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- What’s Valuable About The Nine-County Definition of The Region?
- What About Related Activity Outside The Nine Counties?
- Should We Use Different Regional Geographies For Different Issues?
- Conclusion
The longer a definition is in use, the more significance and relevance it accrues — and this one has been around for a while. 1. The Bay Area has been a political and cultural region for nearly a century. While maps of the San Francisco Bay date back to at least 1776, references to “the San Francisco Bay Area” began in the early part of the 20th ce...
Because many of the region’s patterns extend outside the nine counties, it’s important to look at what’s happening beyond this boundary. 1. The Bay Area is part of an emerging Northern California megaregion that combines several adjacent metropolitan regions. Many of the important factors that shape life in the Bay Area — including water and energy...
As the following examples show, in some situations it’s critical to map complete systems, instead of using the data contained in a pre-ordained set of counties. 1. Commutes reveal the geographic spread of our economic patterns. SPUR’s research and conversations with stakeholders showed that population and commute patterns are the strongest way to t...
The spatial patterns explored above extend — and have meaning — across different geographies. All represent systems that are regional in nature and critical to life in the Bay Area. With this understanding, SPUR arrived at the following decisions: 1. The SPUR Regional Strategy will focus most deeply on the nine-county Bay Area, which remains import...
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California counties in the San Francisco Bay Area. San Francisco is both a city and a county. Some listed counties have no borders on San Francisco Bay , but are in the federal combined statistical area .
The Bay Area consists of nine counties ( Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma) and 101 municipalities. [5] One, San Francisco, is a consolidated city–county. California law makes no distinction between "city" and "town", and municipalities may use either term in their official names. [6]
This unusual landscape of development has contributed to considerable disagreement between local and federal definitions of the area.Since World War II, a nine-county definition for the Bay Area has taken hold, including the counties that directly border the San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun estuaries: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San ...
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Although the exact boundaries of the region are variously defined, the Bay Area is defined by the Association of Bay Area Governments to include the nine counties that border the aforementioned estuaries: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, Sonoma, and San Francisco.
