Pacific Ave
94 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Pacific Ave, between 1907 and 2025, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about streets closed for good, sewers, taxis and garages.
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What keeps coming up
- Streets closed for good14Streets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.
- Sewers13Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Taxis and garages7Taxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.
- Oil tanks and boilers5Fuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.
- Dance halls and masquerades5Permits for balls and dances, named by the club holding them and the hall they hired.
- Paving and grading4Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2020s8North Beach and Polk Street zoning eased to allow more shops · 2025
- 2010s1Small business permit ordinance amended with a new title · 2019
- 2000s2Stop signs set at Walnut and Pacific and 30th and Lake · 2005
- 1990s2Parking rules to change on Stanford Street near Townsend Street · 1999
- 1980s6Golden Gateway North allowed to occupy Broadway during Commons construction · 1982
- 1970s19Jackson Square made a historic district between Kearny and Sansome Streets · 1972
- 1960s5Pipeline land at Emerald Lake and Milpitas named in an ordinance · 1964
- 1950s7Part of Pacific Avenue made a through highway · 1958
- 1940s3City takes over Raycliff Terrace off Pacific Avenue · 1941
- 1930s4Heavy industry allowed on Pacific Avenue near Larkin Street · 1936
- 1920s18Bay Cities Bridge Corporation asks for a toll bridge to Alameda · 1925
- 1910s13Fire protection water mains ordered north of Pacific Avenue · 1916
- 1900s6Use and sale of fireworks regulated by new ordinance · 1907
The most notable decisions
North Beach and Polk Street zoning eased to allow more shops
Ordinance · 4 November 2025 ↗Bay Cities Bridge Corporation asks for a toll bridge to Alameda
Resolution · 6 April 1925 ↗Robert L. Dunn presents plans for a bridge to Alameda
Ordinance · 19 April 1926 ↗Jackson Square made a historic district between Kearny and Sansome Streets
Ordinance · 17 July 1972 ↗Use and sale of fireworks regulated by new ordinance
Ordinance · 16 September 1907 ↗Contractors would have to keep garbage cans at building sites
Ordinance · 2 March 1908 ↗Shop size limits lifted for Polk Street and North Beach
Ordinance · 2 September 2025 ↗Bars, banks and offices frozen six months on Fillmore Street
Ordinance · 5 November 1979 ↗Market Street Railway pays $10,000 to give up Pacific Avenue tracks
Ordinance · 26 August 1929 ↗Easements accepted on Pacific Avenue and Drumm Street
Resolution · 3 April 1978 ↗
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