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120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Valencia St, between 1906 and 2025, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about parking, taxis and garages, paving and grading.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Valencia St, between 1906 and 2025
Most of them in the 1920s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.15
Taxis and garagesTaxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.9
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.8
Environmental reviewNothing before the 1970s, then permanent: the review law arriving and staying.8
Housing bondsHow affordable housing is paid for, in the years since the 1980s.7
Permission to open somethingA shop, a clinic, a wrecking yard, a dispensary: uses that needed asking for.7

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2020s1
    Proposed: Valencia Street bikeway appeal · 2025
  2. 2010s12
    Proposal to allow personal services above the second floor on Valencia Street (outcome not in the record) · 2013
  3. 2000s6
    Proposed: below-market flats required in new Mission buildings · 2008
  4. 1990s5
    Proposed, approved later: $217,925 grant sought for the Department of Social Services · 1992
  5. 1980s14
    Proposed: bigger shops on neighborhood shopping streets · 1987
  6. 1970s5
    Proposed: a category for artists' residences in the Building Code · 1978
  7. 1950s4
    Proposed: seeking an international exposition in San Francisco, 1962 · 1957
  8. 1940s8
    Housing Authority asked to drop Cogswell School and Valencia Street projects · 1940
  9. 1930s3
    Proposal to pay Freda W. Ames for school land on Valencia Street (outcome not in the record) · 1930
  10. 1920s35
    Land bought for the Dudley Stone School for $9,000 · 1922
  11. 1910s10
    Proposed: to tell United Railroads to run Valencia Street cars every ninety seconds · 1910
  12. 1900s17
    Terrill Bros. paid for the branch library at Page and Cole · 1909

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