The Bay Area Council is a business association in

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, founded in 1945, and dedicated to economic development in the

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. At its inception in the post WWII years, members included

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, the Transamerica Corporation,

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, Kaiser Industries,

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and others. By the late 1940s, the Council was an early environmental watchdog. In the 1950s, the Council promoted a regional mass transit system that eventually became

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. In 1965, the Council sponsored legislation creating the Bay Conservation and Development Commission. In 1970, they helped to create the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.

References

External links

Bay Area Council website
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