Pacific Heights
1,195 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Pacific Heights, between 1906 and 2026, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about land and buildings split up, oil tanks and boilers, permission to open something.
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Its busiest streets
California St120+ · Sacramento St120+ · Sutter St120+ · Bush St120+ · Fillmore St120+ · Clay St120+ · Jackson St120+ · Pacific Ave94
What keeps coming up
- Land and buildings split up130A lot split in two, or a building divided into flats that sell separately.
- Oil tanks and boilers102Fuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.
- Permission to open something53A shop, a clinic, a wrecking yard, a dispensary: uses that needed asking for.
- Laundries38Laundries needed the Board's permission, and their neighbours sometimes objected.
- Dance halls and masquerades29Permits 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.
- 2020s19Appeal over 24 flats at 2395 Sacramento Street filed · 2024
- 2010s48$35.4M housing loan approved for 2451 Sacramento Street · 2016
- 2000s63Historic preservation contract approved for the Bransten House on Franklin Street · 2007
- 1990s77Emergency sewer replacement on Broadway from Pierce to Scott Streets · 1999
- 1980s136Temporary zoning rules set for Fillmore Street between Jackson and Bush · 1980
- 1970s110Baker and Clay Street blocks limited to fewer flats · 1974
- 1960s38Corners adopted at Masonic Avenue, Steiner Street and Precita Avenue · 1966
- 1950s36Wildwood Park map approved and its streets opened to the public · 1955
- 1940s33Market Street Railway gets a bus route to Marina Boulevard · 1940
- 1930s71Street work assessments payable in three installments at 7 per cent · 1936
- 1920s322$54,913 to build the Oral Deaf School on Washington Street · 1922
- 1910s169Street railways to give motormen and conductors a seat · 1915
- 1900s73Lillie E. Lincoln paid $12,000 for Pacific Heights School land · 1909
The most notable decisions
Market Street Railway gets a bus route to Marina Boulevard
Ordinance · 4 November 1940 ↗Market Street Railway to run buses along Divisadero and Fillmore Streets
Ordinance · 15 July 1940 ↗$54,913 to build the Oral Deaf School on Washington Street
Resolution · 1 May 1922 ↗Oral-Deaf School to be built on Washington Street
Ordinance · 19 December 1921 ↗Pacific Heights School to be built on Jackson Street
Ordinance · 10 October 1921 ↗Emerson School to be built on Pine Street
Ordinance · 23 May 1921 ↗Grant School to be built on Pacific Avenue
Ordinance · 22 March 1920 ↗Josephine Murray's Webster Street land bought for a school, $10,000
Resolution · 27 February 1922 ↗Lillie E. Lincoln paid $12,000 for Pacific Heights School land
Resolution · 7 June 1909 ↗May W. Shannon paid $11,500 for land for Pacific Heights School
Resolution · 1 June 1909 ↗
Where this comes from
This page carries the 12 most notable decisions of each decade, 156 of the 1,195 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