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Outer Mission

1,073 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Outer Mission, between 1906 and 2025, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about paving and grading, railroads and spur tracks, sewers.

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Its busiest streets

Mission St120+ · Alemany Blvd120+ · Cayuga Ave120+ · San Jose Ave120+ · Ocean Ave120+ · Geneva Ave120+ · Onondaga Ave60 · Cotter St20

What keeps coming up

  • Paving and grading69Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
  • Railroads and spur tracks63Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Sewers50Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
  • The rules for this street changed26Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.
  • Dance halls and masquerades19Permits 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.

  1. 2020s39
    $9.0M more lent for 137 affordable flats at 4840 Mission Street · 2023
  2. 2010s35
    Up to $1.4M approved for Volunteers in Medicine, 35 Onondaga Avenue · 2019
  3. 2000s40
    New payday lenders barred along Mission Street in the Excelsior · 2008
  4. 1990s33
    1084-86 Huron Street rezoned from two-family housing to neighborhood shops · 1993
  5. 1980s40
    Former Alemany Emergency Hospital leased to St. Mary's Hospital · 1984
  6. 1970s44
    Nahua and Mount Vernon Avenues land rezoned for single houses · 1979
  7. 1960s26
    $123,907.29 paid for land to widen Washington and Drumm Streets · 1966
  8. 1950s48
    Signals put on Larkin, Mission, California and Alemany Boulevard · 1954
  9. 1940s59
    Market Street Railway to get a permit to run buses · 1940
  10. 1930s183
    Excelsior Emergency Hospital ordered at Onondaga Avenue and Alemany Boulevard · 1931
  11. 1920s299
    Balboa Elementary School ordered built at San Jose Avenue and Seneca · 1928
  12. 1910s208
    Sidewalks on Ocean Avenue set at ten feet wide · 1913
  13. 1900s19
    Land at Ocean and San Jose avenues given to the Fire Department · 1909

The most notable decisions

Where this comes from

This page carries the 12 most notable decisions of each decade, 155 of the 1,073 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