Bernal Heights
1,468 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Bernal Heights, between 1906 and 2026, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about paving and grading, keeping horses and cows, protests and appeals.
Open Bernal Heights on the map, with its record →
Its busiest streets
Mission St120+ · Folsom St120+ · Cortland Ave84 · Peralta Ave54 · Coso Ave44 · Crescent Ave41 · Precita Ave34 · Eugenia Ave16
What keeps coming up
- Paving and grading128Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Keeping horses and cows73Until about 1930 the Board voted on whether you could keep animals at your address.
- Protests and appeals34A protest recorded at a hearing, or an appeal against a decision — brought by neighbours and by applicants alike.
- Land bought and sold31Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.
- Blasting permits28Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2020s25Subdivision map approved for eight flats at 3310 Mission Street · 2021
- 2010s71$20.7M in bonds approved for Coleridge Park Homes · 2019
- 2000s49Permit parking widened around Guerrero Street and San Jose Avenue · 2001
- 1990s54$435,000 spent to buy open space on Bonview Street · 1993
- 1980s69Bocana Street lot handed to the park department for open space · 1987
- 1970s80Ripley Street rezoned for two-family housing between Harrison and Folsom · 1973
- 1960s55Corners adopted at Masonic Avenue, Steiner Street and Precita Avenue · 1966
- 1950s45Geranio land bought for $3,700 to widen San Jose Avenue · 1951
- 1940s62Market Street Railway to get a permit to run buses · 1940
- 1930s136Louis Weissbarth's Highland Avenue land bought for $8,100 for a school · 1930
- 1920s377Le Conte School to be built on Harrison Street near Precita · 1924
- 1910s379Paul Revere School on Tompkins Street put off a week · 1916
- 1900s66United Railroads asks to turn its cable lines into trolleys · 1907
The most notable decisions
Le Conte School to be built on Harrison Street near Precita
Ordinance · 6 October 1924 ↗Market Street Railway to get a permit to run buses
Ordinance · 5 February 1940 ↗$20.7M in bonds approved for Coleridge Park Homes
Resolution · passed · 19 November 2019 ↗75-year lease for 45 affordable flats at 211-291 Putnam Street
Resolution · 27 November 2018 ↗$18M to buy and fix 46 flats on Putnam Street
Resolution · 27 November 2018 ↗$35M in housing bonds approved for 3101 Mission Street
Resolution · passed · 24 July 2018 ↗$30M in housing bonds approved for Putnam Street
Resolution · passed · 24 July 2018 ↗$435,000 spent to buy open space on Bonview Street
Resolution · 13 September 1993 ↗Bocana Street lot handed to the park department for open space
Resolution · 26 June 1987 ↗82-86 Coleridge Street to be bought for open space
Resolution · 22 July 1985 ↗
Where this comes from
This page carries the 12 most notable decisions of each decade, 156 of the 1,468 on record; the rest are on its streets. 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