Portola
701 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Portola, between 1906 and 2026, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about paving and grading, land bought and sold, libraries.
Open Portola on the map, with its record →
Its busiest streets
San Bruno Ave120+ · Bacon St77 · Goettingen St65 · Burrows St55 · Woolsey St53 · Girard St48 · Felton St46 · Brussels St39
What keeps coming up
- Paving and grading82Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Land bought and sold16Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.
- Libraries14Branch libraries — several of them shops the city rented one year at a time.
- Freeways12The freeways, from the land bought for them to the fights about them.
- Streets closed for good9Streets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2020s8$2M from Phi Associates for the Veterans Academy on Girard Road · 2022
- 2010s16New Portola park celebrated at Burrows Street and San Bruno Avenue · 2013
- 2000s20Land at Keith Street to be taken for a rail substation · 2002
- 1990s18Restored funding urged for San Francisco's public swimming pools · 1990
- 1980s19Corner of Felton and Bowdoin Streets rezoned for single-family houses · 1988
- 1970s22Portola branch library lease amended at 2434 San Bruno Avenue · 1975
- 1960s40City drops the residence rule for 32 job examinations · 1961
- 1950s62McLaren Park boundaries trimmed to 326 acres after owners' objections · 1953
- 1940s54Branch library to rent 2434 San Bruno Avenue for $60 monthly · 1943
- 1930s51Library and reading room leased at 2666 San Bruno Avenue · 1935
- 1920s188Nina Stephens paid $5,250 for Bacon Street school land · 1927
- 1910s190United Railroads told to pave its strip of San Bruno Avenue · 1916
- 1900s13Phillip Herold paid $1,700 for a lot on San Bruno Avenue · 1909
The most notable decisions
McLaren Park boundaries trimmed to 326 acres after owners' objections
Resolution · 20 April 1953 ↗Land at 700 Bosworth Street bought for the Glen Park library
Resolution · 20 July 1959 ↗Nina Stephens paid $5,250 for Bacon Street school land
Resolution · 5 December 1927 ↗Chas. McDonnell paid $8,000 for Hawthorne School land on Brussels Street
Resolution · 23 March 1925 ↗City buys Vincento Camilleri's Girard Street lot for a school
Resolution · 16 February 1925 ↗Chas. Child paid $2,800 for Portola School land on Burrows Street
Resolution · 2 February 1925 ↗Margaret Schaefer paid $10,500 for Henry Durant School land
Resolution · 26 January 1925 ↗$2M from Phi Associates for the Veterans Academy on Girard Road
Ordinance · 27 September 2022 ↗New Portola park celebrated at Burrows Street and San Bruno Avenue
Departmental work · 2013 ↗Land at Keith Street to be taken for a rail substation
Resolution · 16 December 2002 ↗
Where this comes from
This page carries the 12 most notable decisions of each decade, 148 of the 701 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