Balboa
71 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Balboa, between 1908 and 2025, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about housing bonds, parks and playgrounds, paving and grading.
What keeps coming up
- Housing bonds9How affordable housing is paid for, in the years since the 1980s.
- Parks and playgrounds8Playgrounds and recreation grounds.
- Paving and grading5Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Sewers3Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Land bought and sold3Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.
- Railroads and spur tracks2Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2020s132340 San Jose Avenue leased out for 131 affordable flats · 2021
- 2010s4Sustainable communities grant sought for housing at 2340 San Jose Avenue · 2019
- 1990s1Permit parking extended to Oneida Avenue in Balboa Park · 1991
- 1970s2Funds sought to improve Balboa Park and Silver Terrace Playground · 1978
- 1960s1Motion dies unseconded as many civic groups speak to the Board · 1969
- 1950s3$216,248.38 voted for swimming pools at Balboa Park and Garfield Square · 1954
- 1940s2Supervisor Lewis urges a new stadium instead of enlarging Kezar · 1949
- 1930s11$1.4M parks and squares bond put to the voters February sixth · 1931
- 1920s18Land bought for playgrounds from the Hueters and the Archbishop · 1929
- 1910s13City accepts Balboa Terrace Company's deed of land for streets · 1917
- 1900s3Renaming of the Great Highway to Balboa Boulevard adopted · 1908
The most notable decisions
$1.4M parks and squares bond put to the voters February sixth
Resolution · 16 February 1931 ↗Voters to decide $1.4M in bonds for parks and squares
Ordinance · 19 January 1931 ↗$1.4M park bond to go before the voters
Resolution · 22 December 1930 ↗2340 San Jose Avenue leased out for 131 affordable flats
Resolution · 8 June 2021 ↗$216,248.38 voted for swimming pools at Balboa Park and Garfield Square
Resolution · 7 September 1954 ↗$1.4M of park work, from Golden Gate Park to Telegraph Hill
Ordinance · 8 December 1930 ↗Land bought for playgrounds from the Hueters and the Archbishop
Resolution · 5 August 1929 ↗$47,775 paid to the Hueters for the Balboa Terrace Playground
Resolution · 27 August 1928 ↗$27,450 for Hueter land for the Balboa Terrace Playground
Resolution · 25 June 1928 ↗Balboa Terrace blocks to be taken for a playground
Resolution · 18 July 1927 ↗
Where this comes from
Every decision the record places on this street is here. 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