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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.

Open South Van Ness Ave on the map, street by street

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.

  1. 2020s3
    $61.4M borrowed to repair city buildings and streets · 2024
  2. 2010s14
    Metropolitan Transportation Commission plan to exclude San Francisco opposed · 2011
  3. 2000s29
    City buys the eight-story office building at One South Van Ness · 2006
  4. 1990s15
    Affordable housing district proposed at South Van Ness Avenue · 1991
  5. 1980s5
    Yield sign set at 13th Street and South Van Ness Avenue · 1985
  6. 1970s3
    Early morning parking banned on 14th through 26th Streets · 1979
  7. 1960s10
    Charter change to bundle small bond projects sent to voters · 1968
  8. 1950s16
    Sidewalks on South Van Ness Avenue to shrink to 16.5 feet · 1958
  9. 1940s8
    Toll Bridge Authority says it cannot survey the Reber Plan · 1946
  10. 1930s2
    Closing celebration proposed for the Golden Gate International Exposition · 1939

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