Foster City, California
San Mateo County · Population 33,805 · Card no. 10139
A Peninsula city built on bay fill in the 1960s, laid out around a system of lagoons.
- T. Jack Foster bought Brewer Island and built the city from marshland.
- Every home is within walking distance of a lagoon by design.
- The levee system protects land largely below sea level.
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