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Potrero Hill

987 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Potrero Hill, between 1906 and 2025, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about paving and grading, sewers, land and buildings split up.

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Its busiest streets

De Haro St120+ · Carolina St120+ · Vermont St120+ · Rhode Island St117 · Kansas St112 · Wisconsin St108 · Texas St82 · Pennsylvania Ave36

What keeps coming up

  • Paving and grading105Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
  • Sewers73Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
  • Land and buildings split up71A lot split in two, or a building divided into flats that sell separately.
  • Blasting permits46Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
  • Freeways9The freeways, from the land bought for them to the fights about them.

Decade by decade

Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.

  1. 2020s35
    $13.0M loan to buy Pennsylvania Avenue sites for family housing · 2024
  2. 2010s57
    $240M in bonds for 299 flats at 1601 Mariposa Street · 2017
  3. 2000s44
    Subdivision map approved for 71 flats at 25 Sierra Street · 2006
  4. 1990s37
    700 Pennsylvania Avenue to be bought for a Muni maintenance yard · 1994
  5. 1980s26
    2222 Twenty-third Street rezoned for apartment buildings · 1981
  6. 1970s19
    Potrero Hill Health Center lease changed at 1100 Wisconsin Street · 1975
  7. 1960s30
    Owens Street opened and the Market and Castro intersection widened · 1964
  8. 1950s20
    New firehouse sites voted for Portola Drive and Valencia Street · 1953
  9. 1940s51
    Market Street Railway bus route changed on Noe and Mission Streets · 1940
  10. 1930s84
    School building program covers new Sullivan, Bernal and Washington schools · 1931
  11. 1920s216
    Addition ordered for the Daniel Webster School on Missouri Street · 1928
  12. 1910s314
    Daniel J. Counihan paid $7,200 for Daniel Webster School land · 1915
  13. 1900s54
    City pays Barbara Schultz $7,500 for San Bruno Avenue land · 1909

The most notable decisions

Where this comes from

This page carries the 12 most notable decisions of each decade, 143 of the 987 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