Harney Way
16 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Harney Way, between 1965 and 2025, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1970s; often about streets closed for good, freeways.
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What keeps coming up
- Streets closed for good3Streets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.
- Freeways2The freeways, from the land bought for them to the fights about them.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2020s3$20.0M federal grant accepted for the Harney Way busway · 2025
- 2000s1Structure to be built where Harney Way meets Alana Way · 2002
- 1990s2$453,392 accepted to earthquake-proof six pedestrian bridges across the city · 1991
- 1980s1Police and fire pay rates for 1989-90 sent to committee · 1989
- 1970s8Height limits raised on Harney Way for an office-motel complex · 1976
- 1960s1Map approved for opening Harney Way to the county line · 1965
The most notable decisions
$20.0M federal grant accepted for the Harney Way busway
Resolution · 14 January 2025 ↗Height limits raised on Harney Way for an office-motel complex
Ordinance · 12 October 1976 ↗Harney Way land rezoned for an office and motel complex
Ordinance · 12 October 1976 ↗$453,392 accepted to earthquake-proof six pedestrian bridges across the city
Resolution · 9 December 1991 ↗Structure to be built where Harney Way meets Alana Way
Departmental work · 2002 ↗Zoning change at Jamestown Avenue and Harney Way finally passed
Ordinance · passed · 22 May 1995 ↗Map approved for opening Harney Way to the county line
Resolution · passed · 11 January 1965 ↗$20.0M for the Harney Way bus project sent to committee
Resolution · in progress · 28 January 2025 ↗Map approved for opening Alana Way west of Harney Way
Resolution · passed · 16 October 1978 ↗Parts of Blanken, Olney and Nelson Avenues to be closed
Ordinance · 11 June 1979 ↗
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