South Van Ness Ave
105 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about South Van Ness Ave, between 1939 and 2024, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 2000s; often about parking, environmental review, buildings the city rents.
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What keeps coming up
- Parking27Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- Environmental review12Nothing before the 1970s, then permanent: the review law arriving and staying.
- Buildings the city rents10Space the city leases from private owners, with the rent on the record.
- Streetcars and transit5Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- Land bought and sold5Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.
- Freeways4The 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$61.4M borrowed to repair city buildings and streets · 2024
- 2010s14Metropolitan Transportation Commission plan to exclude San Francisco opposed · 2011
- 2000s29City buys the eight-story office building at One South Van Ness · 2006
- 1990s15Affordable housing district proposed at South Van Ness Avenue · 1991
- 1980s5Yield sign set at 13th Street and South Van Ness Avenue · 1985
- 1970s3Early morning parking banned on 14th through 26th Streets · 1979
- 1960s10Charter change to bundle small bond projects sent to voters · 1968
- 1950s16Sidewalks on South Van Ness Avenue to shrink to 16.5 feet · 1958
- 1940s8Toll Bridge Authority says it cannot survey the Reber Plan · 1946
- 1930s2Closing celebration proposed for the Golden Gate International Exposition · 1939
The most notable decisions
Charter change to bundle small bond projects sent to voters
Resolution · 12 August 1968 ↗City buys the eight-story office building at One South Van Ness
Resolution · 15 August 2006 ↗City buys the office building at One South Van Ness
Resolution · 8 August 2006 ↗Toll Bridge Authority says it cannot survey the Reber Plan
Ordinance · 4 March 1946 ↗$61.4M borrowed to repair city buildings and streets
Ordinance · 24 September 2024 ↗Affordable housing district proposed at South Van Ness Avenue
Ordinance · proposed · 20 May 1991 ↗Parking barred on Giants Drive and Redondo Street for Candlestick crowds
Resolution · 4 April 1960 ↗Metropolitan Transportation Commission plan to exclude San Francisco opposed
Resolution · 1 February 2011 ↗City leases the parking lot at 13th and South Van Ness
Resolution · 22 May 2007 ↗Bicycle lanes set on 7th Avenue, Indiana and 14th Streets
Resolution · 3 May 1999 ↗
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