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Western Addition

943 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Western Addition, between 1906 and 2026, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about taxis and garages, churches, housing bonds.

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Its busiest streets

Turk St120+ · Golden Gate Ave120+ · Mcallister St120+ · Van Ness Ave120+ · Ellis St120+ · Eddy St120+ · Fillmore St120+ · Fulton St120+

What keeps coming up

  • Taxis and garages35Taxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.
  • Churches27Congregations, and the buildings they asked the city about.
  • Housing bonds16How affordable housing is paid for, in the years since the 1980s.
  • Streets closed for good10Streets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.
  • Shelters and homelessness7Shelters and supportive housing — and where the city put them.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2020s80
    $32.1M housing note approved for 750 Golden Gate Avenue · 2024
  2. 2010s79
    $4.6M subsidy approved for Parkview Terraces at 871 Turk Street · 2018
  3. 2000s55
    Lease approved at 1449 Webster Street for employment programs · 2008
  4. 1990s61
    Kaiser's Geary campus lot at Divisadero and O'Farrell rezoned for shops · 1998
  5. 1980s82
    Van Ness Avenue between Elm and Turk Streets to be rezoned · 1989
  6. 1970s52
    762 Fulton Street bought for a community cultural center · 1976
  7. 1960s46
    142 low-rent flats for the elderly approved on McAllister Street · 1966
  8. 1950s38
    Supervisors named to negotiate buying the California Street Cable Railroad · 1950
  9. 1940s30
    $9,787 paid the Benders to move buildings on O'Farrell Street · 1947
  10. 1930s46
    Wires to go underground on Fulton Street between Franklin and Divisadero · 1939
  11. 1920s185
    Additions ordered for the John Swett School on McAllister Street · 1928
  12. 1910s127
    City Hall to be built on Van Ness Avenue · 1913
  13. 1900s62
    Schools to be built on city land, with architects and costs · 1906

The most notable decisions

Where this comes from

This page carries the 12 most notable decisions of each decade, 156 of the 943 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