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Geary Blvd

120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Geary Blvd, between 1931 and 2019, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about the rules for this street changed, parking, environmental review.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Geary Blvd, between 1931 and 2019

What keeps coming up

The rules for this street changedRezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.45
ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.20
Environmental reviewNothing before the 1970s, then permanent: the review law arriving and staying.14
Cemeteries and funeralsBurial and the trades around it, at their heaviest as the city closed its cemeteries.5
Permission to open somethingA shop, a clinic, a wrecking yard, a dispensary: uses that needed asking for.5
Protests and appealsA protest recorded at a hearing, or an appeal against a decision — brought by neighbours and by applicants alike.5

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2010s17
    Proposal to create a new zoning district at Geary and Masonic (outcome not in the record) · 2017
  2. 2000s13
    Proposal for a Japantown special use district with chain store limits (outcome not in the record) · 2006
  3. 1990s4
    Proposal for tow-away zones on 4th Street and Masonic Avenue (outcome not in the record) · 1998
  4. 1980s14
    Ban on demolishing homes extended between Broadway and Bush Streets · 1987
  5. 1970s7
    Map approved for widening Geary Boulevard at Peter Yorke Way · 1972
  6. 1960s17
    Geary Boulevard parking garage deal approved with the Parking Authority · 1962
  7. 1950s22
    Sidney Lea's Palm Avenue land bought for Roosevelt Junior High · 1957
  8. 1940s16
    Proposed: payment of $8,700 to Henry Doelger and city land for a school site · 1945
  9. 1930s10
    Land on Palm Avenue to be taken for Roosevelt Junior High · 1937

The most notable decisions

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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