West of Twin Peaks
1,753 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about West of Twin Peaks, between 1906 and 2026, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about parking, oil tanks and boilers, pg&e and the utilities.
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Its busiest streets
Ocean Ave120+ · Portola Dr120+ · Laguna Honda Blvd120+ · Taraval St117 · Ulloa St111 · West Portal Ave61 · Joost Ave55 · Monterey Blvd49
What keeps coming up
- Parking129Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- Oil tanks and boilers99Fuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.
- PG&E and the utilities88The gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.
- Streets closed for good18Streets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.
- Libraries15Branch libraries — several of them shops the city rented one year at a time.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2020s34$84.1M borrowing for 127 flats at Balboa Reservoir · 2025
- 2010s72$1.7M subsidy approved for Monterey Boulevard Apartments at 403 Monterey Street · 2018
- 2000s73City to buy 1298 Ocean Avenue for the Ingleside Branch Library · 2003
- 1990s91Building heights in the Lakeside area would be lowered · 1995
- 1980s117Heavy trucks to be barred from Westwood Park streets · 1984
- 1970s67Ban on housing discrimination against families with children sent to committee · 1978
- 1960s90Bosworth, Brompton and Chilton properties rezoned from houses to flats · 1969
- 1950s122Apartment zoning accepted at Sloat Boulevard and West Portal Avenue · 1959
- 1940s92Jane Soldavini's store at 389 Ashton Avenue rented for the library · 1948
- 1930s139New firehouse ordered on Eighteenth Avenue between Quintara and Rivera · 1930
- 1920s592Golden Gate Park bus line joined to the Forest Hill route · 1929
- 1910s257Caldwell & Co. paid $8,250 to start the Spring Valley School · 1910
- 1900s7Schools to be built on city land, with architects and costs · 1906
The most notable decisions
Golden Gate Park bus line joined to the Forest Hill route
Resolution · 26 September 1929 ↗Bus line to run between Edna Street and Forest Hill Station
Ordinance · 12 April 1926 ↗Schools to be built on city land, with architects and costs
Ordinance · 26 November 1906 ↗Aptos Elementary School ordered built at Upland Drive and Aptos Avenue
Ordinance · 18 June 1928 ↗$170,001.24 set aside to build the West Portal School
Resolution · 26 April 1926 ↗West Portal School to be built on Claremont Boulevard
Ordinance · 19 October 1925 ↗Caldwell & Co. paid $8,250 to start the Spring Valley School
Resolution · 12 September 1910 ↗$1.7M subsidy approved for Monterey Boulevard Apartments at 403 Monterey Street
Resolution · passed · 26 June 2018 ↗City to buy 1298 Ocean Avenue for the Ingleside Branch Library
Resolution · 21 May 2003 ↗Land at Upland Drive to be taken for a school
Resolution · 8 August 1927 ↗
Where this comes from
This page carries the 12 most notable decisions of each decade, 146 of the 1,753 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