San Mateo-Foster City Real Estate News

The front page of the San Francisco Chronicle today features a story about the Hayward Fault. the earthquake fault expected to rumble next, and cause catastrophic damage to the Bay Area.  Foster City residents, take precautions to save your house before an earthquake because once it comes, it is too late.  Everyone knows about the San Andreas Fault.  It runs down most of California coming onto land in Daly City and exiting land in the Sea of Cortez in Baja, California.  The Hayward Fault runs parallel to the San Francisco Bay and sits under the hills where there are multiple schools, hospitals, houses, the University of California and Hayward State University.  It may be shorter, but it is now being considered much more dangerous to all of us living here.  The damage anticipated could be larger than Katrina.  They're talking economic loss of up to $165 Billion.

This is major and will impact the world. The San Francisco Bay Area is home to bio-tech, high tech, major corporations, universities and multiple other kinds of businesses.  What makes this so scary is that most of us do not have insurance for earthquakes.  It's just too

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If you live in Hillsborough or Foster City you have disappeared!  You no longer exist.  At least as far as the United States Postal Service is concerned.  Yup.  You no longer exist.  Poof you're gone.  Last week the USPS consolidated zip codes and eliminated any and all cities or towns that share a zip code with a second city.  The "owner" of the zip, such as Burlingame in the case of Hillsborough, or San Mateo in the case of Foster City is now the name of your community. 

This has been going on for a while and you are aware of it if you live in one of these two cities.  You order something

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Last week, the Vice Mayor of Foster City, John Kiramis, wrote an op ed peice in the San Mateo Daily Journal that rang a chord with me. Foster City shares a zip code with San Mateo, but Foster City has the majority of the citizens and businesses in this zip code, 94404. I've mentioned this zip share before both about Foster City and Burlingame but the Burlingame-Hillsborough zip makes sense since Hillsborough has about 9000 residents and Burlingame has almost 30,000. It makes no sense with Foster City and San Mateo since Foster City has about 30,000 residents and the area of San Mateo covered by 94404 has about 9000. John Firamis makes a good case for making a change. I, for one, am ready to help John make the post office change this. If you live in Foster City, how do you feel about this? Here, with John Kiramis' permission for reprint, is his commentary.

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