Lists
Last Updated: 04/28/2022
Historic Context Statements
To learn more about how these relate to SFSurvey, review the Framework for Citywide Historic and Cultural Context Statement.
Completed
Cultural
- Citywide Historic Context Statement for LBGTQ History in San Francisco (Adopted 2016)
- The Development of Sexual Identity Based Subcultures (Adopted 2004)
- LGBTQ+ Cultural Heritage Strategy (Published 2020)
- Japantown Cultural Heritage and Economic Sustainability Strategy (“JCHESS”) (Adopted 2013)
- Supported by Japantown Historic Context Statement (as part of Better Neighborhoods Plan effort, not adopted)
- Filipino Heritage Addendum to South of Market Historic Context Statement (Adopted 2013)
Geographic
- Corbett Heights, San Francisco (Western Part of Eureka Valley) Historic Context Statement (Adopted 2017)
- Eureka Valley Historic Context Statement (Adopted 2017)
- Central SOMA Historic Context Statement (Adopted 2016)
- Historic Context Statement of the Oceanside: A Neighborhood of the Sunset District, San Francisco (Adopted 2012)
- Transit Center District Survey (includes HCS) (Adopted 2012)
- Showplace Square / Northeast Mission Survey (Adopted 2011)
- South of Market Area Historic Context Statement (Adopted 2011)
- Bayview Hunters Point Area B Survey Historic Context Statement (Adopted 2010)
- India Basin Survey and Context Statement (Adopted 2008)
- San Francisco’s Parkside District: A Historic Context Statement, 1905-1957 (Adopted 2008)
- City Within A City: Historic Context Statement for San Francisco’s Mission District (Adopted 2007)
- Market Octavia Plan Area Historic Context Statement (Adopted 2007)
- Inner Mission North Historic Context Statement (2004)
- Central Waterfront Survey and Context Statement(Adopted 2001)
- Market & Octavia Area Plan Amendment (formerly The Hub)
- Better Market Street
- North Beach – forthcoming
Thematic
- Earthquake Shacks Theme Document (Adopted 2021)
- Sunset District Residential Builders, 1925-1950 Historic Context Statement (Adopted 2013)
- San Francisco Modern Architecture and Landscape Design, 1935-1970 Historic Context Statement (Adopted 2011)
- Van Ness Auto Row Support Structures: A Survey of Automobile-Related Buildings along the Van Ness Avenue Corridor Architectural (Adopted 2010)
- Carnegie Branch Libraries of San Francisco (Adopted 2001)
Architectural
- A Context Statement and Survey of Unreinforced Masonry Buildings (UMB) 1850-1940 (Adopted 1991)
Actively in Progress
Note: as projects launch, webpage link will appear.
- African-American Citywide HCS
- Neighborhood Commercial Buildings, 1865-1965, HCS
- Gardens in the City - Residence Parks in San Francisco, 1906-1940, HCS
- Chinese-American Citywide HCS
- Architecture, Planning, & Preservation Professionals: A Collection of Biographies
- Early Settlement Era Styles (1848-c.1880)
- Gilded Age Styles (c.1870-c.1900)
- Progressive Era & Reconstruction Period Styles (c.1890-c.1915)
- Developer Tracts: Streetcar Suburbanization (1880-1920)
- Developer Tracts: Auto Suburbanization (1920-1950)
For More Information
Please email CPC.Survey@sfgov.org to learn about other contexts and themes under development.