Wikimedia Commons · Brocken Inaglory · CC BY-SA 3.0The San Francisco Zoo's civic record is one of planning and oversight. A 1998 Planning Commission motion certifies the final EIR for the Zoological Gardens Master Plan, noting it would demolish the Aviary, Lion House and Pachyderm House in a potential zoo historic district. A 1995 Public Works infrastructure master plan sets out water and utility improvements. The Budget Analyst's January 2000 performance audit, reviewed by a 2003 select committee, identifies about $4.53 million that could be reallocated under Zoological Society management. Records under the historic name Fleishhacker Zoo, from 1929 and 1965, describe its founding and growth. The zoo is operated by the Recreation and Park Department, whose FY2025 budget line totals about $250M.
No city spending is recorded against this place by name. San Francisco publishes contracts, bond items and vendor payments at project level, and none of them names this site — so there is no figure to show, rather than a figure of zero.
Run by the Recreation & Parks, whose whole-department budget is $250.4M across 2,161 staff (FY2025) — citywide, not this place’s own. The City does not publish a running cost per building.
The Budget Analyst's management audit of the zoo for the Board of Supervisors, conducted under Charter Section 2.114 while the zoo was run by the San Francisco Zoological Society.
Performance audit of the San Francisco Zoo · 2000 ↗Internet Archive — San Francisco Public Library partnership scansThe final environmental review of the zoo's master plan, certified by the Planning Commission in January 1998.
San Francisco Zoological Gardens master plan : final environmental impact report · 1998 ↗Internet Archive — San Francisco Public Library partnership scansA 1995 engineering report for Public Works on the state of the zoo's underlying infrastructure.
San Francisco Zoological Gardens : infrastructure master plan : final report · 1995 ↗Internet Archive — San Francisco Public Library partnership scansA Recreation and Park annual report recording rising zoo attendance, which it credits to the Zoological Society's publicity and to newly acquired animals.
Annual report · 1965 ↗Internet Archive — San Francisco Public Library partnership scans
2 procedural records — minutes, agendas, calendars — not listed.
