Valencia St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Valencia St, between 1906 and 2025, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about parking, taxis and garages, paving and grading.
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What keeps coming up
- Parking15Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- Taxis and garages9Taxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.
- Paving and grading8Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Environmental review8Nothing before the 1970s, then permanent: the review law arriving and staying.
- Housing bonds7How affordable housing is paid for, in the years since the 1980s.
- Permission to open something7A shop, a clinic, a wrecking yard, a dispensary: uses that needed asking for.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2020s1Valencia Street bikeway appeal heard and filed · 2025
- 2010s12Personal services allowed above the second floor on Valencia Street · 2013
- 2000s6Below-market flats required in new Mission buildings, sent to committee · 2008
- 1990s5$217,925 grant sought for the Department of Social Services · 1992
- 1980s14Bigger shops to be allowed on neighborhood shopping streets · 1987
- 1970s5Artists' residences sought as a category in the Building Code · 1978
- 1950s4Mayor asked to seek an international exposition in San Francisco, 1962 · 1957
- 1940s8Housing Authority asked to drop Cogswell School and Valencia Street projects · 1940
- 1930s3Freda W. Ames paid for school land on Valencia Street · 1930
- 1920s35Land bought for the Dudley Stone School for $9,000 · 1922
- 1910s10United Railroads told to run Valencia Street cars every ninety seconds · 1910
- 1900s17Terrill Bros. paid for the branch library at Page and Cole · 1909
The most notable decisions
Bigger shops to be allowed on neighborhood shopping streets
Ordinance · 2 November 1987 ↗Terrill Bros. paid for the branch library at Page and Cole
Resolution · 23 August 1909 ↗Freda W. Ames paid for school land on Valencia Street
Resolution · 14 April 1930 ↗Land bought for the Dudley Stone School for $9,000
Resolution · 6 March 1922 ↗$9,000 paid for land for the Dudley Stone School
Resolution · 27 February 1922 ↗$15,000 offer accepted for land beside the Horace Mann school
Resolution · 8 January 1908 ↗Flats above shops on Valencia Street protected from commercial conversion
Ordinance · 27 May 1980 ↗Mayor asked to seek an international exposition in San Francisco, 1962
Ordinance · 4 November 1957 ↗United Railroads told to run Valencia Street cars every ninety seconds
Resolution · 27 December 1910 ↗Charter change proposed to spread commission seats across supervisor districts
Resolution · proposed · 3 March 1980 ↗
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