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Nob Hill

1,201 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Nob Hill, between 1906 and 2026, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about hotels and rooming houses, taxis and garages, liquor licences.

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Its busiest streets

Sutter St120+ · California St120+ · Bush St120+ · Post St120+ · Pine St120+ · Polk St120+ · Mason St120+ · Sacramento St120+

What keeps coming up

  • Hotels and rooming houses108Hotels and rooming houses, concentrated in a handful of neighbourhoods.
  • Taxis and garages62Taxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.
  • Liquor licences35Bars, shops and restaurants — the licence following the address as it changes hands.
  • Theatres and shows26Theatres, cinemas and travelling shows.
  • Cemeteries and funerals13Burial and the trades around it, at their heaviest as the city closed its cemeteries.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2020s60
    $71.1M loan approved for supportive housing at 1000 Sutter Street · 2024
  2. 2010s75
    Fourteen homes approved at 1001 California Street · 2014
  3. 2000s54
    $496,544 state loan for the 1101 Polk Street homeless shelter · 2001
  4. 1990s50
    $310,650 approved for emergency sewer work on Polk Street · 1999
  5. 1980s101
    Pineview senior housing approved above the Broadway Tunnel at Mason Street · 1987
  6. 1970s70
    Blocks between Van Ness Avenue and Steiner Street allowed fewer flats · 1974
  7. 1960s18
    Renewal program adopted over protests from Western Addition residents · 1967
  8. 1950s45
    City urged to offer $150,000 for the California Street Railroad Company · 1951
  9. 1940s36
    Sacramento Street cable cars to be dropped and the rails removed · 1941
  10. 1930s121
    Sidewalk widths set on Polk Street between Market and Post Streets · 1937
  11. 1920s361
    Downtown parking limited to forty minutes during the day · 1924
  12. 1910s149
    Stockton Street line being built from Market Street to Columbus Avenue · 1913
  13. 1900s61
    Josephine Daniels' $6,150 offer accepted for the Leavenworth Street firehouse lot · 1908

The most notable decisions

Where this comes from

This page carries the 12 most notable decisions of each decade, 156 of the 1,201 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