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Geary Blvd

120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Geary Blvd, between 1931 and 2019, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about the rules for this street changed, parking, cemeteries and funerals.

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What keeps coming up

  • The rules for this street changed44Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.
  • Parking20Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
  • Cemeteries and funerals5Burial and the trades around it, at their heaviest as the city closed its cemeteries.
  • Permission to open something5A shop, a clinic, a wrecking yard, a dispensary: uses that needed asking for.
  • Protests and appeals5A protest recorded at a hearing, or an appeal against a decision — brought by neighbours and by applicants alike.
  • Railroads and spur tracks4Rail 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.

  1. 2010s17
    New zoning district created at Geary and Masonic · 2017
  2. 2000s13
    Japantown special use district passed, with chain store limits · 2006
  3. 1990s4
    Tow-away zones set on 4th Street and Masonic Avenue · 1998
  4. 1980s14
    Ban on demolishing homes extended between Broadway and Bush Streets · 1987
  5. 1970s7
    Map approved for widening Geary Boulevard at Peter Yorke Way · 1972
  6. 1960s17
    Geary Boulevard parking garage deal approved with the Parking Authority · 1962
  7. 1950s22
    Sidney Lea's Palm Avenue land bought for Roosevelt Junior High · 1957
  8. 1940s16
    Henry Doelger paid $8,700 and city land for a school site · 1945
  9. 1930s10
    Land on Palm Avenue to be taken for Roosevelt Junior High · 1937

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