UNTIL lately THERE weren't a lot of...

UNTIL lately THERE weren't a lot of reasons to win off Highway 80 at Hercules, Calif. In fact, many San Franciscans probably aren't familiar with the little town, which is upon the Bay side 16 miles north of Oakland. if it be not that a forward-thinking city planning commission is changing all that. It's putting this S-square-mile town of 20000 forward the map with a redesigned just discovered urbanist waterfront district.

The extended stretch of Hercules waterfront used to be confusioned with brownfields, dilapidated factories, and other busted remnants of an industrial past. In an effort to reinvigorate