West Portal Ave
61 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about West Portal Ave, between 1921 and 2025, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1980s; often about streetcars and transit, the rules for this street changed, taxis and garages.
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What keeps coming up
- Streetcars and transit6Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- The rules for this street changed5Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.
- Taxis and garages4Taxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.
- Parking4Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- PG&E and the utilities4The gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.
- Permission to open something4A 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.
- 2020s3Shop size limits lifted for Polk Street and North Beach · 2025
- 2010s1Ban on ground-floor offices on West Portal Avenue sent to committee · 2016
- 2000s2Nail salons on West Portal Avenue would need special permission · 2009
- 1990s8Eighteen-month ban proposed on new bars and cafes on West Portal · 1997
- 1980s18Interim shop zoning on West Portal Avenue to be amended · 1986
- 1970s4BART tunnel under West Portal Avenue sent to committee · 1970
- 1960s3Charter change proposed to exempt power and airport borrowing · 1969
- 1950s5Road money listed for Clarendon Avenue, West Portal and Geary Street · 1952
- 1920s17$4,500 paid to J. P. Holland for Laguna Honda Boulevard work · 1929
The most notable decisions
Charter change proposed to exempt power and airport borrowing
Ordinance · proposed · 30 June 1969 ↗Shop size limits lifted for Polk Street and North Beach
Ordinance · 2 September 2025 ↗Nail salons on West Portal Avenue would need special permission
Ordinance · 17 November 2009 ↗New nail salons on West Portal Avenue would need permission
Ordinance · 10 November 2009 ↗Interim shop zoning on West Portal Avenue to be amended
Resolution · 27 October 1986 ↗Taxi zones removed on Bush, Ellis and Ulloa Streets
Resolution · 29 November 1982 ↗A lot on West Portal Avenue west of Vicente Street adopted
Resolution · passed · 17 June 1963 ↗Road money listed for Clarendon Avenue, West Portal and Geary Street
Ordinance · 15 December 1952 ↗Eighteen-month ban proposed on new bars and cafes on West Portal
Resolution · proposed · 3 March 1997 ↗$25.1M in federal transit money for Muni sent to committee
Resolution · in progress · 18 February 1986 ↗
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