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High St

11 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about High St, between 1922 and 1972, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1930s; often about blasting permits, the rules for this street changed.

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What keeps coming up

  • Blasting permits2Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
  • The rules for this street changed2Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1970s2
    Work on High Street and Clipper Terrace wins first approval · 1972
  2. 1950s1
    Part of Clipper Street renamed Clipper Terrace · 1958
  3. 1930s5
    City to force the sale of land for widening Portola Drive · 1939
  4. 1920s3
    City to take land on High Street near Twenty-fifth Street · 1929

The most notable decisions

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