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Haight St

120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Haight St, between 1913 and 2024, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about permission to open something, environmental review, the rules for this street changed.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Haight St, between 1913 and 2024

What keeps coming up

Permission to open somethingA shop, a clinic, a wrecking yard, a dispensary: uses that needed asking for.21
Environmental reviewNothing before the 1970s, then permanent: the review law arriving and staying.14
The rules for this street changedRezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.11
Theatres and showsTheatres, cinemas and travelling shows.10
Liquor licencesBars, shops and restaurants — the licence following the address as it changes hands.8
Streetcars and transitStreetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.6

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2020s4
    Proposal to lend an extra $8.6M for 63 affordable flats at 78 Haight Street (outcome not in the record) · 2024
  2. 2010s8
    Proposal to ease rules for small business permits, arcades and liquor licences (outcome not in the record) · 2019
  3. 2000s16
    Smoke shops banned on Haight Street and in Lower Haight · 2009
  4. 1990s26
    Six-month freeze on new Haight Street liquor sellers renewed · 1998
  5. 1980s16
    Proposed, approved later: Zoning map updated for the Haight Street special district · 1980
  6. 1970s17
    $90,000 shifted to down-payment loans in Haight-Ashbury · 1976
  7. 1960s16
    Trolley wires costed at $8,600 before the one-way plan was adopted. · 1967
  8. 1940s6
    Payment of $53,500 to Market Street Railway from a Haight Street sale approved · 1947
  9. 1920s4
    Piombo Bros. allowed to blast at Buchanan and Haight streets · 1929
  10. 1910s7
    Proposed, approved later: Buena Vista Avenue to get a new sidewalk near Haight Street · 1915

The most notable decisions

  • Smoke shops banned on Haight Street and in Lower Haight

    Ordinance · 2009 ↗
    30 June 2009
  • Proposal to lend an extra $8.6M for 63 affordable flats at 78 Haight Street (outcome not in the record)

    Resolution · 2024 ↗
    27 February 2024
  • Proposed, approved later: Extra $8.6M lent for 63 affordable flats at 78 Haight Street

    Resolution · passed · 2024 ↗
    30 January 2024
  • Proposal to ease rules for small business permits, arcades and liquor licences (outcome not in the record)

    Ordinance · 2019 ↗
    3 September 2019
  • Proposed, approved later: rules eased for small business permits, arcades and liquor licences

    Ordinance · passed · 2019 ↗
    30 July 2019
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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