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702 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Portola, 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, land bought and sold, libraries.

702
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Portola, between 1906 and 2026
Most of them in the 1910s · Open on the map, with its record

Its busiest streets

San Bruno Ave120+Bacon St77Goettingen St65Burrows St55Woolsey St53Girard St48Felton St46Brussels St39

What keeps coming up

Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.82
Land bought and soldLand changing hands with the city on one side of it.16
LibrariesBranch libraries — several of them shops the city rented one year at a time.14
FreewaysThe freeways, from the land bought for them to the fights about them.12
Streets closed for goodStreets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.9

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2020s9
    $2M from Phi Associates for the Veterans Academy on Girard Road · 2022
  2. 2010s16
    New Portola park celebrated at Burrows Street and San Bruno Avenue · 2013
  3. 2000s20
    Land at Keith Street to be taken for a rail substation · 2002
  4. 1990s18
    Restored funding urged for San Francisco's public swimming pools · 1990
  5. 1980s19
    Corner of Felton and Bowdoin Streets rezoned for single-family houses · 1988
  6. 1970s22
    Portola branch library lease amended at 2434 San Bruno Avenue · 1975
  7. 1960s40
    City drops the residence rule for 32 job examinations · 1961
  8. 1950s62
    McLaren Park boundaries trimmed to 326 acres after owners' objections · 1953
  9. 1940s54
    Branch library to rent 2434 San Bruno Avenue for $60 monthly · 1943
  10. 1930s51
    Library and reading room leased at 2666 San Bruno Avenue · 1935
  11. 1920s188
    Nina Stephens paid $5,250 for Bacon Street school land · 1927
  12. 1910s190
    United Railroads told to pave its strip of San Bruno Avenue · 1916
  13. 1900s13
    Phillip Herold paid $1,700 for a lot on San Bruno Avenue · 1909

The most notable decisions

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This page carries the 12 most notable decisions of each decade, 149 of the 702 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

Outer Mission2,276 decisions on recordChinatown2,264 decisions on recordHayes Valley2,072 decisions on recordNorth Beach1,925 decisions on recordHaight Ashbury1,878 decisions on record

Overview

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