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1,045 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about North Beach, between 1906 and 2026, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about environmental review, liquor licences, permission to open something.

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Its busiest streets

Montgomery St120+ · Grant Ave120+ · Stockton St120+ · Lombard St120+ · Chestnut St120+ · Union St120+ · Filbert St114 · Columbus Ave107

What keeps coming up

  • Environmental review39Nothing before the 1970s, then permanent: the review law arriving and staying.
  • Liquor licences33Bars, shops and restaurants — the licence following the address as it changes hands.
  • Permission to open something31A shop, a clinic, a wrecking yard, a dispensary: uses that needed asking for.
  • Streets closed for a day27Parades, street fairs, block parties, ground-breakings, festivals.
  • 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. 2020s47
    Alioto Fish Company's leases on Taylor and Jefferson streets to end · 2022
  2. 2010s77
    Rezoning of 701 Lombard Street for the library finally passed · 2011
  3. 2000s75
    Landmark status for City Lights Bookstore on Columbus Avenue · 2001
  4. 1990s68
    Four below-market flats at 690 Chestnut Street backed by the city · 1997
  5. 1980s82
    Zoning to change on blocks from Broadway to Ingalls Street · 1987
  6. 1970s91
    Zoning changed at 400-498 Francisco Street and 2300-2310 Mason Street · 1977
  7. 1960s32
    Simmons Mattress plant site rezoned from factory to shops and homes · 1964
  8. 1950s24
    DiSalvo Trucking Company leases city land on Phelps Street · 1958
  9. 1940s40
    Buildings near Union Street and Grant Avenue limited to forty feet · 1945
  10. 1930s94
    Downtown streets made one-way and parking barred on Grant Avenue · 1930
  11. 1920s189
    City drops the taking of Lombard Street land for a school · 1927
  12. 1910s159
    A primary school to be built on Union Street near Kearny · 1917
  13. 1900s67
    Lange & Bergstrom paid $5,500 for the Pacific Street engine house · 1909

The most notable decisions

Where this comes from

This page carries the 12 most notable decisions of each decade, 155 of the 1,045 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