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120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Portola Dr, between 1915 and 2024, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about fire stations, schools, buildings the city rents.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Portola Dr, between 1915 and 2024
Most of them in the 1920s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

Fire stationsEngine houses and fire stations.9
SchoolsSchool sites bought, built and repaired.8
Buildings the city rentsSpace the city leases from private owners, with the rent on the record.6
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.5
Streetcars and transitStreetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.4
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.4

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2020s4
    Proposal for a Twin Peaks Auto Care lease at 598 Portola Drive (outcome not in the record) · 2024
  2. 2010s3
    Proposal for a five-year lease at 598 Portola Drive for Twin Peaks Auto Care (outcome not in the record) · 2015
  3. 1970s2
    Proposed: new traffic signals along Portola Drive · 1974
  4. 1960s4
    Proposed, approved later: $820,000 for street resurfacing, planting and the Geary Expressway; passed first reading only; later finally passed · 1960
  5. 1950s9
    $175,000 allowed to buy land widening Market Street to Portola Drive · 1956
  6. 1940s13
    Proposal for a $585,900 agreement with the state for major street work this year (outcome not in the record) · 1940
  7. 1930s13
    $800 paid for land to widen Portola Drive · 1931
  8. 1920s62
    Bills paid for Steinhart Aquarium and Portola Drive street work · 1928
  9. 1910s10
    $1,000 set aside for plans for the Redding School · 1915

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