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1,470 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Bernal Heights, between 1906 and 2026, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about paving and grading, keeping horses and cows, protests and appeals.

1,470
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Bernal Heights, between 1906 and 2026
Most of them in the 1910s · Open on the map, with its record

Its busiest streets

Mission St120+Folsom St120+Cortland Ave84Peralta Ave54Coso Ave44Crescent Ave41Precita Ave34Eugenia Ave16

What keeps coming up

Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.128
Keeping horses and cowsUntil about 1930 the Board voted on whether you could keep animals at your address.73
Protests and appealsA protest recorded at a hearing, or an appeal against a decision — brought by neighbours and by applicants alike.37
Land bought and soldLand changing hands with the city on one side of it.31
Sidewalk permitsSteps, planters, ramps and parklets standing on public sidewalk.9

Decade by decade

Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.

  1. 2020s27
    Subdivision map approved for eight flats at 3310 Mission Street · 2021
  2. 2010s71
    $20.7M in bonds approved for Coleridge Park Homes · 2019
  3. 2000s49
    Permit parking widened around Guerrero Street and San Jose Avenue · 2001
  4. 1990s54
    $435,000 spent to buy open space on Bonview Street · 1993
  5. 1980s69
    Bocana Street lot handed to the park department for open space · 1987
  6. 1970s80
    Ripley Street rezoned for two-family housing between Harrison and Folsom · 1973
  7. 1960s55
    Corners adopted at Masonic Avenue, Steiner Street and Precita Avenue · 1966
  8. 1950s45
    Geranio land bought for $3,700 to widen San Jose Avenue · 1951
  9. 1940s62
    Market Street Railway to get a permit to run buses · 1940
  10. 1930s136
    Louis Weissbarth's Highland Avenue land bought for $8,100 for a school · 1930
  11. 1920s377
    Le Conte School to be built on Harrison Street near Precita · 1924
  12. 1910s379
    Paul Revere School on Tompkins Street put off a week · 1916
  13. 1900s66
    United Railroads asks to turn its cable lines into trolleys · 1907

The most notable decisions

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This page carries the 12 most notable decisions of each decade, 156 of the 1,470 on record; the rest are on its streets. Every line is written from one item in the minutes of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, the city council, and links to the page it was printed on at the Internet Archive or in the Clerk's own files. Many of the Board's decisions name no street at all, and only the ones that do can be placed here. How the record was read · The whole city

See also

Neighbourhoods next to it

Tenderloin4,175 decisions on recordMarina3,797 decisions on recordCastro/Upper Market3,345 decisions on recordExcelsior3,161 decisions on recordNoe Valley2,827 decisions on record

Overview

The city, drawn from its own recordEvery block, and what the Board of Supervisors decided there