Noe Valley
1,019 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Noe Valley, between 1906 and 2026, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about keeping horses and cows, schools, blasting permits.
Open Noe Valley on the map, with its record →
Its busiest streets
Castro St120+ · Diamond St120+ · Church St120+ · Dolores St120+ · Clipper St101 · Douglass St91 · Duncan St48 · Valley St23
What keeps coming up
- Keeping horses and cows68Until about 1930 the Board voted on whether you could keep animals at your address.
- Schools39School sites bought, built and repaired.
- Blasting permits32Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
- Land bought and sold26Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.
- Dance halls and masquerades23Permits for balls and dances, named by the club holding them and the hall they hired.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2020s12Subdivision map approved for eight homes at 36 Amber Drive · 2022
- 2010s17Five flats approved at 1200-1204 Castro Street · 2015
- 2000s53Bike lanes on San Jose Avenue and Guerrero Street · 2004
- 1990s31New stop signs set at six corners including Castro and Chenery · 1996
- 1980s38Temporary zoning rules set for Twenty-fourth Street between Diamond and Chattanooga · 1980
- 1970s32Planning Commission overruled on two-family housing near Clipper and Douglass Streets · 1973
- 1960s29Woodside Avenue land sold for $97,500 for low-rent elderly housing · 1963
- 1950s28Holladay Avenue widened at Esmeralda Avenue and opened as public street · 1959
- 1940s56Bus routes proposed along Castro, Divisadero, Fillmore and Union Streets · 1942
- 1930s70James Lick Junior High School ordered built at Noe and Clipper · 1930
- 1920s244Land to be taken to enlarge the Douglass Street playground · 1929
- 1910s330Payments approved for Hetch Hetchy work and a Municipal Railway extension · 1919
- 1900s79O. M. V. Roberts paid $3,500 for Mission High School land · 1909
The most notable decisions
Payments approved for Hetch Hetchy work and a Municipal Railway extension
Resolution · passed · 5 May 1919 ↗$123,500 set aside for the Church Street streetcar extension
Resolution · 20 December 1915 ↗James Lick Junior High School ordered built at Noe and Clipper
Ordinance · 27 January 1930 ↗Sophie Fischer's Twenty-fifth Street property bought for a school
Resolution · 30 June 1930 ↗John Robertson's Castro Street property bought for a school, $8,000
Resolution · 9 June 1930 ↗The McDowells paid $8,250 for school land on Clipper Street
Resolution · 28 April 1930 ↗Land to be taken to enlarge the Douglass Street playground
Resolution · 12 August 1929 ↗Jas. H. Winter paid $7,750 for Henry Durant School land
Resolution · 9 February 1925 ↗Charles Rademaker's Douglass Street land bought for a school
Resolution · 1 December 1924 ↗Victor Hasselberg's Eureka Street land bought for $7,000 for a school
Resolution · 4 August 1924 ↗
Where this comes from
This page carries the 12 most notable decisions of each decade, 152 of the 1,019 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