Street
Portola Dr
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.
What keeps coming up
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2020s4Proposal for a Twin Peaks Auto Care lease at 598 Portola Drive (outcome not in the record) · 2024
- 2010s3Proposal for a five-year lease at 598 Portola Drive for Twin Peaks Auto Care (outcome not in the record) · 2015
- 1970s2Proposed: new traffic signals along Portola Drive · 1974
- 1960s4Proposed, approved later: $820,000 for street resurfacing, planting and the Geary Expressway; passed first reading only; later finally passed · 1960
- 1950s9$175,000 allowed to buy land widening Market Street to Portola Drive · 1956
- 1940s13Proposal for a $585,900 agreement with the state for major street work this year (outcome not in the record) · 1940
- 1930s13$800 paid for land to widen Portola Drive · 1931
- 1920s62Bills paid for Steinhart Aquarium and Portola Drive street work · 1928
- 1910s10$1,000 set aside for plans for the Redding School · 1915
The most notable decisions
Bills paid for Steinhart Aquarium and Portola Drive street work
Resolution · 1928 ↗16 July 1928Payment of $8,154.35 to Thollander Construction for Engine House No. 47 approved
Resolution · passed · 1929 ↗25 November 1929Proposed, approved later: payment of $8,154.35 to Thollander Construction for Engine House No. 47
Resolution · passed · 1929 ↗18 November 1929$33,000 set aside for Engine House No. 39 on Portola Drive
Resolution · 1922 ↗14 August 1922Proposed, approved later: $33,000 set aside for Engine House No. 39 on Portola Drive
Resolution · passed · 1922 ↗7 August 1922
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Residential Development Company gives the city land for a fire house
Resolution · 1922 ↗14 February 1922Payment of $1,448.36 to Hercules Powder Company for Hetch Hetchy explosives approved
Resolution · passed · 1927 ↗17 January 1927Proposal for a $585,900 agreement with the state for major street work this year (outcome not in the record)
Ordinance · 1940 ↗12 August 1940$175,000 allowed to buy land widening Market Street to Portola Drive
Resolution · 1956 ↗2 July 1956Two lots bought for $925 for the Portola Drive widening
Resolution · 1946 ↗14 October 1946
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