Scenic
15 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Scenic, between 1977 and 2015, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 2010s; often about the rules for this street changed, environmental review, parking.
What keeps coming up
- The rules for this street changed13Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.
- Environmental review4Nothing before the 1970s, then permanent: the review law arriving and staying.
- Parking3Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
The most notable decisions
Waterfront and Broadway special districts redrawn on the zoning map
Ordinance · 28 February 2012 ↗Parking and sign rules rewritten across many zoning districts
Ordinance · 14 February 2012 ↗Sign districts on Broadway and the waterfront to be redrawn
Ordinance · 8 November 2011 ↗Broadway and waterfront sign districts to be redrawn
Ordinance · 1 November 2011 ↗Billboards barred from the Embarcadero and Van Ness, sent to committee
Ordinance · in progress · 25 November 2014 ↗Ocean Beach scenic road may proceed with the Great Highway sewer
Resolution · 21 March 1977 ↗Broadway and waterfront sign district changes head to the next meeting
Ordinance · 1 November 2011 ↗The Embarcadero added to the list of scenic streets
Ordinance · 26 July 2011 ↗New sign rules proposed for Van Ness Avenue and The Embarcadero
Ordinance · proposed · 10 February 2015 ↗New sign rules pass first reading, banning billboards from The Embarcadero
Ordinance · 3 February 2015 ↗
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