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Haight Ashbury

833 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Haight Ashbury, between 1906 and 2026, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about land and buildings split up, permission to open something, dance halls and masquerades.

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Its busiest streets

Haight St120+ · Masonic Ave120+ · Stanyan St120+ · Divisadero St97 · Waller St70 · Page St65 · Cole St59 · Ashbury St43

What keeps coming up

  • Land and buildings split up60A lot split in two, or a building divided into flats that sell separately.
  • Permission to open something31A shop, a clinic, a wrecking yard, a dispensary: uses that needed asking for.
  • Dance halls and masquerades22Permits for balls and dances, named by the club holding them and the hall they hired.
  • Landmarks13Buildings the city decided to keep.
  • Wires put underground9Districts where overhead wires had to come down.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2020s28
    Subdivision map approved for six homes at 764 Cole Street · 2022
  2. 2010s59
    $48.8M loan proposed for 201 flats at 1150 Scott Street · 2015
  3. 2000s69
    Haight Street lots to be rezoned for small shops · 2005
  4. 1990s67
    Eighteen-month ban on new liquor outlets along Haight Street · 1996
  5. 1980s63
    Temporary zoning rules set for Haight Street between Stanyan and Central · 1980
  6. 1970s43
    Carl Street area rezoned to allow shops among the homes · 1979
  7. 1960s29
    Use changed at 1030 Crescent Avenue and 1064 Oak Street. · 1968
  8. 1950s12
    $16,080 paid the Buck family to widen Thirteenth Street · 1951
  9. 1940s9
    Market Street Railway bus route set from Castro Street to the Marina · 1942
  10. 1930s56
    Land bought from Pearl Meade for the Grattan School playground, $3,400 · 1937
  11. 1920s148
    City to use Market Street Railway tracks for the Judah line · 1928
  12. 1910s170
    Lowell High School to be built for $340,000 on Masonic Avenue · 1910
  13. 1900s80
    Healy-Tibbitts and Buena Vista paid for fire cisterns across the city · 1909

The most notable decisions

Where this comes from

This page carries the 12 most notable decisions of each decade, 142 of the 833 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