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Overview

The Public Trust

Waterfront Access Map

Waterfront History Map

Public Transportation

Waterfront Signage

Other Waterfront
Organizations

LWVO Waterfront Study

Horace Carpentier

Port History Excerpts

Learn More About Our Waterfront

At Waterfront Action, we're convinced that knowledge yields power, and as our community learns more about the waterfront, we will speak collectively with a more effective voice.

Learn about

• The Public Trust (aka "tidelands trust"), a provision of constitutional law that guides uses of waterways and certain waterfront properties.
   

• Our interactive waterfront access map
  that shows opportunities for public access
  to our waterfront.
  
   

• Our interactive waterfront history map
  that shows the rich history of our region's
  shoreline areas.

• Public transportation at our waterfront.

• Interesting signage along our waterfront.

• Other organizations providing waterfront support, regulation, and services.

• The League of Women Voters Waterfront Study, a seminal document that provided the foundations for the Estuary Policy Plan.

• Horace Carpentier, first mayor of Oakland, and a key figure in the city's waterfront history.

• The early history of Oakland's waterfront, as chronicled by WPA-era authors.

• Life on the Waterfront: And an Estuary Runs Through It, a glimpse of estuary history and life published in Alameda Magazine, January 2010.

Waterfront Facts

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