Qipu
The city

Street

Pacific Ave

100 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Pacific Ave, between 1907 and 2025, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about streets closed for good, sewers, the rules for this street changed.

100
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Pacific Ave, between 1907 and 2025
Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

Streets closed for goodStreets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.14
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.13
The rules for this street changedRezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.12
Environmental reviewNothing before the 1970s, then permanent: the review law arriving and staying.10
Taxis and garagesTaxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.7
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.6

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2020s8
    Proposal to ease North Beach and Polk Street zoning to allow more shops (outcome not in the record) · 2025
  2. 2010s1
    Proposed, approved later: Small business permit ordinance · 2019
  3. 2000s3
    Stop signs set at Walnut and Pacific and 30th and Lake · 2005
  4. 1990s2
    Proposed: changing parking rules on Stanford Street near Townsend Street · 1999
  5. 1980s6
    Proposed, approved later: Golden Gateway North allowed to occupy Broadway during Commons construction · 1982
  6. 1970s19
    Proposed, approved later: Jackson Square historic district between Kearny and Sansome Streets proposed; introduced only · 1972
  7. 1960s5
    Pipeline land at Emerald Lake and Milpitas named in an ordinance · 1964
  8. 1950s7
    Part of Pacific Avenue made a through highway · 1958
  9. 1940s3
    City takes over Raycliff Terrace off Pacific Avenue · 1941
  10. 1930s5
    Failed: proposal to allow heavy industry on Pacific Avenue near Larkin Street · 1936
  11. 1920s18
    Proposed: a toll bridge to Alameda for Bay Cities Bridge Corporation · 1925
  12. 1910s17
    Proposed, approved later: Fire protection water mains ordered north of Pacific Avenue · 1916
  13. 1900s6
    Use and sale of fireworks regulated by new ordinance · 1907

The most notable decisions

See 5 more documents

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

Gold StSame block of the map, 6 decisions on recordYork St95 decisions on record, next to it in the ranking10th Ave94 decisions on record, next to it in the ranking11th St93 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