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West Portal Ave

61 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about West Portal Ave, between 1921 and 2025, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1980s; often about the rules for this street changed, permission to open something, streetcars and transit.

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What keeps coming up

  • The rules for this street changed8Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.
  • Permission to open something7A shop, a clinic, a wrecking yard, a dispensary: uses that needed asking for.
  • Streetcars and transit6Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
  • Environmental review5Nothing before the 1970s, then permanent: the review law arriving and staying.
  • Taxis and garages4Taxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.
  • Parking4Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2020s3
    Shop size limits lifted for Polk Street and North Beach · 2025
  2. 2010s1
    Ban on ground-floor offices on West Portal Avenue sent to committee · 2016
  3. 2000s2
    Nail salons on West Portal Avenue would need special permission · 2009
  4. 1990s8
    Eighteen-month ban proposed on new bars and cafes on West Portal · 1997
  5. 1980s18
    Interim shop zoning on West Portal Avenue to be amended · 1986
  6. 1970s4
    BART tunnel under West Portal Avenue sent to committee · 1970
  7. 1960s3
    Charter change proposed to exempt power and airport borrowing · 1969
  8. 1950s5
    Road money listed for Clarendon Avenue, West Portal and Geary Street · 1952
  9. 1920s17
    $4,500 paid to J. P. Holland for Laguna Honda Boulevard work · 1929

The most notable decisions

Where this comes from

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

The streets that open on the same block of the map, and its neighbours by decisions on record.

19th AveSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordSloat BlvdSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordWawona StSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on record15th AveSame block of the map, 73 decisions on recordThe city, drawn from its own recordEvery block, and what the Board of Supervisors decided there