In California, ground has been broken for

In California, ground has been broken for the Hercules Waterfront District, the first new urbanist development project in the San Francisco Bay Area city, which last year adopted a regulating plan and a typological code created by Dover Kohl & Partners (see September 2000 issue). The project design by David Sargent of Sargent Town Planning predates the Dover Kohl master plan, but has incorporated several suggestions on street alignments and the design of squares. Located on the site of a former dynamite plant, the 125-acre project is currently designed to include 206 single-family homes, about 300 units in mixed-use buildings in the town center and along the waterfront, and 125,000 square feet of ground-floor commercial space. The Waterfront District will be developed by the Bixby Company of Santa Barbara. Chances are good that trains will soon stop on the waterfront. According to Community Development Director Steve Lawton, the board of the state-subsidized Capitol Corridor intercity rail service is close to granting the funds for a Hercules station, and the city is ready to build a parking structure.