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Presidio Heights

684 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Presidio 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 oil tanks and boilers, the rules for this street changed, war and the military.

Open Presidio Heights on the map, with its record

Its busiest streets

California St120+ · Geary Blvd120+ · Sacramento St120+ · Washington St120+ · Clay St120+ · Jackson St120+ · Parker Ave117 · Presidio Ave91

What keeps coming up

  • Oil tanks and boilers112Fuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.
  • The rules for this street changed32Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.
  • War and the military28The military in the city, and what the wars did to it.
  • Permission to open something24A shop, a clinic, a wrecking yard, a dispensary: uses that needed asking for.
  • Cemeteries and funerals7Burial and the trades around it, at their heaviest as the city closed its cemeteries.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2020s20
    Eight-year extension approved for the 3333 California Street project · 2024
  2. 2010s55
    $15M for the John Burton Foundation housing at 800 Presidio Avenue · 2015
  3. 2000s32
    Taller buildings proposed on the block at California and Presidio Avenue · 2000
  4. 1990s31
    Permit parking widened to Laguna Street and Presidio Avenue · 1991
  5. 1980s60
    Sacramento Street rezoned for shops with homes above · 1980
  6. 1970s39
    Health clinic rents 3626 Geary Boulevard from E. Sugarman, Inc. · 1972
  7. 1960s18
    Alert Alley and Sproul Lane made one-way streets · 1962
  8. 1950s32
    Center island planting finished on Geary Boulevard between Masonic and 33rd · 1959
  9. 1940s45
    Board overrules the planning commission on Bush Street and Presidio Avenue · 1940
  10. 1930s28
    James McEvoy sells land for $7,571 to widen Parker Avenue · 1936
  11. 1920s205
    $5,000 paid for land for the Crocker-Amazon School · 1921
  12. 1910s95
    City railway planned along Geary Street to the ocean · 1912
  13. 1900s24
    Sidewalk widths to be set on California Street near Presidio Avenue · 1908

The most notable decisions

Where this comes from

This page carries the 12 most notable decisions of each decade, 152 of the 684 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