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Arguello Blvd

120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Arguello Blvd, between 1912 and 2024, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about schools, cemeteries and funerals, parking.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Arguello Blvd, between 1912 and 2024
Most of them in the 1910s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

SchoolsSchool sites bought, built and repaired.16
Cemeteries and funeralsBurial and the trades around it, at their heaviest as the city closed its cemeteries.14
ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.13
Permission to open somethingA shop, a clinic, a wrecking yard, a dispensary: uses that needed asking for.13
Protests and appealsA protest recorded at a hearing, or an appeal against a decision — brought by neighbours and by applicants alike.11
The rules for this street changedRezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.5

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2020s2
    Proposal for Bay Area Young Survivors to fund new seating at the Conservatory (outcome not in the record) · 2024
  2. 2000s4
    Clement Street meters go from one hour to two hours · 2007
  3. 1990s7
    Proposed: keeping a recycling center at Kezar Stadium's Arguello Boulevard corner · 1990
  4. 1980s7
    Proposal to impose temporary building rules across the Richmond and Sunset districts (outcome not in the record) · 1988
  5. 1970s1
    Federal money sought to rebuild Arguello Boulevard between Geary and Fulton · 1976
  6. 1960s28
    Failed: proposal to overturn the Planning Commission on the Parnassus Avenue rezoning · 1962
  7. 1940s4
    Navy leases land near Twin Peaks Reservoir for a radio station · 1945
  8. 1930s8
    $23,448 paid H. W. Steinegger for Angelo J. Rossi Playground land · 1935
  9. 1920s28
    $480,675 set aside to build Roosevelt Junior High School at Arguello Boulevard · 1929
  10. 1910s31
    Proposal to move bodies in Laurel Hill and Calvary cemeteries (outcome not in the record) · 1913

The most notable decisions

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  • Proposal to clear graves from Laurel Hill and Calvary cemeteries (outcome not in the record)

    Ordinance · 1914 ↗
    7 January 1914
  • Four cemeteries declared a nuisance and ordered emptied of bodies

    Resolution · 1914 ↗
    7 January 1914
  • Failed: proposal to tie Richmond and Sunset demolitions to approval of replacement buildings

    Resolution · 1988 ↗
    4 January 1988
  • $480,675 set aside to build Roosevelt Junior High School at Arguello Boulevard

    Resolution · 1929 ↗
    22 April 1929
  • Roosevelt Junior High School ordered built at Arguello Boulevard and Geary

    Ordinance · 1928 ↗
    21 April 1928

The street holds more than 120 decisions; this page carries the 120 most notable. 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