Bay Area Council

The Bay Area Council is a business association in San Francisco, founded in 1945, and dedicated to economic development in the San Francisco Bay Area.[1][2] At its inception in the post WWII years, members included Wells Fargo, Bank of America, the Transamerica Corporation, Standard Oil of California, Pacific Gas and Electric, Bechtel, Kaiser Industries, Clorox 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 BART.

For the local council of the Boy Scouts of America, see Bay Area Council (Texas).
Bay Area Council

In 1965, the Council sponsored legislation creating the Bay Conservation and Development Commission. In 1970, they helped to create the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.[3]

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-10-02. Retrieved 2018-12-02.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "Business Leaders Urge Employers to Plan for BART Strike". Retrieved 3 December 2018.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-09-20. Retrieved 2018-12-02.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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