Portola Dr
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Portola Dr, between 1915 and 2024, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about fire stations, schools, buildings the city rents.
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What keeps coming up
- Fire stations9Engine houses and fire stations.
- Schools8School sites bought, built and repaired.
- Buildings the city rents6Space the city leases from private owners, with the rent on the record.
- Paving and grading5Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Streetcars and transit4Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- Sewers4Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2020s4Twin Peaks Auto Care lease sought at 598 Portola Drive · 2024
- 2010s3Five-year lease at 598 Portola Drive for Twin Peaks Auto Care · 2015
- 1970s2Supervisors ask for new traffic signals along Portola Drive · 1974
- 1960s4$820,000 voted for street resurfacing, planting and the Geary Expressway · 1960
- 1950s9$175,000 allowed to buy land widening Market Street to Portola Drive · 1956
- 1940s13$585,900 agreed with the state for major street work this year · 1940
- 1930s13$800 paid for land to widen Portola Drive · 1931
- 1920s62Bills paid for Steinhart Aquarium and Portola Drive street work · 1928
- 1910s10$1,000 set aside for plans for the Redding School · 1915
The most notable decisions
Bills paid for Steinhart Aquarium and Portola Drive street work
Resolution · 16 July 1928 ↗Thollander Construction paid $8,154.35 for Engine House No. 47
Resolution · 25 November 1929 ↗$33,000 set aside for Engine House No. 39 on Portola Drive
Resolution · 14 August 1922 ↗Residential Development Company gives the city land for a fire house
Resolution · 14 February 1922 ↗Hercules Powder Company paid $1,448.36 for Hetch Hetchy explosives
Resolution · 17 January 1927 ↗$585,900 agreed with the state for major street work this year
Ordinance · 12 August 1940 ↗$175,000 allowed to buy land widening Market Street to Portola Drive
Resolution · 2 July 1956 ↗Two lots bought for $925 for the Portola Drive widening
Resolution · 14 October 1946 ↗Westgate Park Company and others sell land to widen Portola Drive
Resolution · 12 May 1941 ↗Gateway Land Company paid $1,500 for land to widen Portola Drive
Resolution · 20 January 1941 ↗
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