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Balboa St

120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Balboa St, between 1910 and 1997, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about schools, the rules for this street changed, paving and grading.

Open Balboa St on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

  • Schools17School sites bought, built and repaired.
  • The rules for this street changed9Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.
  • Paving and grading8Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
  • Sewers6Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
  • Railroads and spur tracks4Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Taxis and garages3Taxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1990s3
    Parking time limits changed on Oak, Hickory and Balboa Streets · 1997
  2. 1980s2
    Stop signs adopted at Fillmore and Filbert and Church Streets · 1986
  3. 1960s11
    Six parcels bought for up to $127,000 on Fitzgerald and Randolph · 1969
  4. 1950s1
    Sylvia Hanson and Dilys Evans buy Eighth Avenue land for $6,200 · 1953
  5. 1940s3
    City land on Fourth Avenue near Balboa Street offered for sale · 1945
  6. 1930s9
    San Francisco Hospital sets a charge of $4.00 a day · 1936
  7. 1920s73
    Frank J. Taylor's land near Anza Street bought for a school · 1928
  8. 1910s18
    Fulton Street extended through the Civic Center to Hyde Street · 1919

The most notable decisions

Where this comes from

The street holds more than 120 decisions; this page carries the 120 most notable. 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