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71 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Balboa, between 1908 and 2025, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about housing bonds, parks and playgrounds, environmental review.

71
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Balboa, between 1908 and 2025
Most of them in the 1920s

What keeps coming up

Housing bondsHow affordable housing is paid for, in the years since the 1980s.11
Parks and playgroundsPlaygrounds and recreation grounds.8
Environmental reviewNothing before the 1970s, then permanent: the review law arriving and staying.6
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.5
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.5
Streetcars and transitStreetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.4

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2020s13
    Proposal to lease 2340 San Jose Avenue for 131 affordable flats (outcome not in the record) · 2021
  2. 2010s4
    Proposed, approved later: Sustainable communities grant sought for housing at 2340 San Jose Avenue · 2019
  3. 1990s1
    Permit parking extended to Oneida Avenue in Balboa Park · 1991
  4. 1970s2
    Funds sought to improve Balboa Park and Silver Terrace Playground · 1978
  5. 1960s1
    Proposal: Motion dies unseconded as many civic groups speak to the Board (outcome not in the record) · 1969
  6. 1950s3
    $216,248.38 voted for swimming pools at Balboa Park and Garfield Square · 1954
  7. 1940s2
    Proposed: Supervisor Lewis urges a new stadium instead of enlarging Kezar · 1949
  8. 1930s11
    Proposed: $1.4M parks and squares bond to be put to the voters February sixth · 1931
  9. 1920s18
    Land bought for playgrounds from the Hueters and the Archbishop · 1929
  10. 1910s13
    City accepts Balboa Terrace Company's deed of land for streets · 1917
  11. 1900s3
    Proposed: renaming of the Great Highway to Balboa Boulevard · 1908

The most notable decisions

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Every decision the record places on this street is here. 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

Streets near it on the record

Park72 decisions on record, next to it in the rankingInnes Ave72 decisions on record, next to it in the rankingTelegraph Hill Blvd71 decisions on record, next to it in the rankingMendell St70 decisions on record, next to it in the ranking

Overview

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