MILLBRAE REFERENCE · PLACE GLOSSARY
The words that make Millbrae legible.
Some names are formal planning or facility terms. Others are useful local shorthand. This glossary keeps those roles visible and points to the guide that can answer the deeper question.
Checked: August 21, 2026. Place names, facility details, project status, and boundaries can change or mean different things in different decisions. Follow the linked maintained source when precision matters.
A · The connecting places
Start with movement and geography.
These terms recur across transit, planning, neighborhoods, and everyday orientation.
TRANSIT
Millbrae Station
The regional interchange where BART, Caltrain, SamTrans, and SFO access meet. Use it as a transit term first; the surrounding planning area has its own formal boundaries and documents.
Open the station guide →CORRIDOR
El Camino Real
A historic route and current commercial corridor. Planning, zoning, business, and transportation questions may refer to different stretches or documents.
Read planning and growth →AIRPORT EDGE
SFO
San Francisco International Airport borders Millbrae’s eastern context and shapes hotels, highways, transit, jobs, noise, planning, and visitor movement. It is next door, but it is not Millbrae.
Read the station story →PLANNING
Station Area
Usually shorthand for the area addressed by the Millbrae Station Area Specific Plan. Use the City plan when a question concerns a project, land use, or formal boundary.
Open the City plan ↗B · The public-space names
Places carry history as well as amenities.
TRAIL
Spur Trail
A multi-phase trail and open-space property with a civic history tied to an earlier road proposal. Current access, facilities, and route details belong with the City facility page.
Read the public-space story →PARK
Mills Estate Park
Also known as Sebastian Park in City project materials, this hillside open space appears in the park and project story. Project status is not the same as current facility access.
Check City projects ↗NEIGHBORHOOD EDGE
Bayside Manor
A place anchor on Millbrae’s eastern side, near the airport and station-area context. Use formal planning or facility sources for boundaries, projects, and services.
Read the neighborhoods guide →CULTURE
Mosta Grove
A public-space name that also points toward Millbrae’s relationship with Mosta, Malta. Parks, sister-city history, and cultural memory overlap here.
Read the global-connections story →C · The institutions
Some local terms are doors, not destinations.
The City’s non-emergency service-request path for issues such as potholes, streetlights, and public-space problems. Keep emergencies with 911.
Open Millbrae Works ↗A public learning institution with current services, programs, digital help, Wi‑Fi, and a makerspace. Use the live library page for hours and events.
Open the library guide →A history institution connected to the 1906 depot fire, the 1907 replacement depot, and the city’s rail story. The history guide explains how to distinguish the museum, depot, and current station.
Read history and culture →The civic records and participation doorway for agendas, minutes, resolutions, elections, public inquiries, language assistance, and public records pathways.
Read the civic participation guide →D · How to use a place name
Match the term to the decision.
Keep exploring
Use the glossary as a map into the hub.
Move from a place name into the deeper history, neighborhood, parks, schools, business, transit, civic, library, and public-resource guides that maintain its context.
