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South Van Ness Ave

108 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about South Van Ness Ave, between 1939 and 2024, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 2000s; often about parking, environmental review, buildings the city rents.

108
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about South Van Ness Ave, between 1939 and 2024
Most of them in the 2000s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.28
Environmental reviewNothing before the 1970s, then permanent: the review law arriving and staying.13
Buildings the city rentsSpace the city leases from private owners, with the rent on the record.10
Streetcars and transitStreetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.6
Land bought and soldLand changing hands with the city on one side of it.5
FreewaysThe freeways, from the land bought for them to the fights about them.4

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2020s3
    Proposal to borrow $61.4M to repair city buildings and streets (outcome not in the record) · 2024
  2. 2010s14
    Proposed: Metropolitan Transportation Commission plan to exclude San Francisco, opposed · 2011
  3. 2000s29
    City buys the eight-story office building at One South Van Ness · 2006
  4. 1990s15
    Proposed, approved later: Affordable housing district proposed at South Van Ness Avenue · 1991
  5. 1980s7
    Yield sign set at 13th Street and South Van Ness Avenue · 1985
  6. 1970s3
    Early morning parking banned on 14th through 26th Streets · 1979
  7. 1960s11
    Charter change to bundle small bond projects sent to voters · 1968
  8. 1950s16
    Sidewalks on South Van Ness Avenue to shrink to 16.5 feet · 1958
  9. 1940s8
    Proposal on the Toll Bridge Authority surveying the Reber Plan, which it says it cannot do (outcome not in the record) · 1946
  10. 1930s2
    Proposed: a closing celebration for the Golden Gate International Exposition · 1939

The most notable decisions

  • Charter change to bundle small bond projects sent to voters

    Resolution · 1968 ↗
    12 August 1968
  • City buys the eight-story office building at One South Van Ness

    Resolution · 2006 ↗
    15 August 2006
  • City buys the office building at One South Van Ness

    Resolution · 2006 ↗
    8 August 2006
  • Proposal on the Toll Bridge Authority surveying the Reber Plan, which it says it cannot do (outcome not in the record)

    Ordinance · 1946 ↗
    4 March 1946
  • Proposal to borrow $61.4M to repair city buildings and streets (outcome not in the record)

    Ordinance · 2024 ↗
    24 September 2024
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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