Talk:List of neighborhoods in San Francisco

message: What is this and why is it here?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ch2cch3 (talk • contribs) 21:06, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grrnal Heights 

message: The San Francisco chamber of commerce lists the following neighborhoods: Alamo Square, Anza Vista, Ashbury Heights, Bernal Heights, Bayview/Hunters Point, Buena Vista Hill, Castro, Cow Hollow, Crocker Amazon, Downtown/Financial District, Duboce Triangle, Eureka Valley, Excelsior, Forest Hill, Glen Park, Golden Gate Heights, Haight Ashbury, Hayes Valley, Ingleside, Jordan Park's, Lake, Lakeshore, Laurel Heights, Marina, Mission, Mission Bay (also known as Mission Rock, Mission Creek and China Basin), Mt. Davidson Manor, Nob Hill, Noe Valley, North Beach, Pacific Heights, Parkside, Portola Heights, Potrero Hill, Presidio Heights, Richmond, Russian Hill, Sea Cliff, Sherwood Forest, South Beach, South of Market (Soma), St. Francis Wood, Sunset, Telegraph Hill, Twin Peaks, Western Addition, West Portal and Yerba Buena.
Many of these are not listed.
A much more comprehensive list can be derived from the districts that the Real Estate agents use.
:Except that real estate agencies just make stuff up at random, to suit their own interests, and they also borrow names from zoning bodies, which are not in actual use (e.g., property I own in Albuquerque is zoned as being in an apparently undefined area that the county calls "The Estates at Tanoan North" but this phrase doesn't mean anything anyone; even "Tanoan North" is gibberish; the actual neighborhood is "Tanoan", and nearby is "Tanoan East", but there is no "Tanoan North"). — SMcCandlish    Talk⇒ ɖ∘¿¤þ   Contrib.  05:06, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chamber of Commerce list 

message: Many of the sections are just links to main articles.  Summaries should be provided for them.  -Pwnage8 20:23, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Missing summaries

message: This list of neighbourhoods in san francisco is only good if you know them. How about a map showing where each one is in relation to each other? 195.157.84.178 14:54, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I had been looking for a suburban map which is free to use but couldnt find one. this doesnt have enough detail. Would any of the maps at the library of congress be of any use? --Astrokey44 11:47, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Still definitely needs it, if only a blocky sketch map.  SUrely a resident could draw one?  Midgley (talk) 05:46, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, this article is nearly useless without maps.  The maps produced by the city government are public domain (automatically, because they were created by the govt.; the US doesn't have the equivalent of UK's Crown copyright nonsense). — SMcCandlish    Talk⇒ ɖ∘¿¤þ   Contrib.  04:59, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I think public domain copyright applies to maps produced by the US Federal Government, but that does not automatically apply to other Goverments within the United States (state, county, or municipal - they are allowed to assert copyright and limited licensing).  I do note that a NASA supplied satellite photo has been outfitted with district boundary lines and is in use on the German language and Dutch versions of this article.  The image is :File:Districts San Fransisco.png and could be used in this English article. 2001:558:6045:A0:1947:F371:FD3B:B1F8 (talk) 15:02, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  Those appear to be electoral districts for the Board of Supervisors; they have little if any relevance to this article. —Tamfang (talk) 18:25, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Maps? 

message: There are nearly 70 articles in the neighborhoods in San Francisco template and on the list, many of which are stubs and/or are for very small areas (And I'm guilty of being the one to create many of them). Some of them are about areas that aren't associated with neighborhoods, like Golden Gate Park, Ocean Beach and Yerba Buena Island. I already merged the Inner Sunset article with the main Sunset article, and some others could be combined, like Cow Hollow and Marina, Laguna Honda and Forest Hill, South Beach and Mission Bay and Theater District and Union Square. 
I don't know what to do with the south-western part of the city, though. There are (short) articles on the Ingleside and Park Merced and Merced Manor is on the list and template, but there is no Oceanview or Lakeside article. All of those areas are pretty small anyway, and there isn't much to put in an article about them individually. I don't know if there should be one or two big articles on all of them combined or what.
I would make those changes myself, but there are enough of them that I wont do it without there being some discussion on it.
Octoferret 10:09, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That sounds like a good idea. We have many articles which are compendiums of that type, such as Santa Monica neighborhoods and High Schools of San Diego. As material develops about individual areas they can split off into new articles. Meanwhile, the clutter of one-sentence articles is reduced.  I say "Go for it!" Will Beback 10:21, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I created a test page like those two and have it at User:Octoferret/Neighborhoods in San Francisco for now. The organization and neighborhoods listed on it need some work, but if they are, the Neighborhoods in San Francisco could be like that. Octoferret 14:00, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

text: I finished the page I was working on and copied it here. It would have been too big if I included descriptions for neighborhoods that have articles, so I just have the link there. User:Octoferret/Neighborhoods in San Francisco still has some of those with the descriptions. The way the neighborhoods are organized probably could be improved, but there isn't an easy way to divide them up into north/south/east/west or anything. Also, I might merge some of the really short neighborhood articles, like the Ingleside and Sunnyside, into this article and they could stay here until someone exapnds the information on them Octoferret 14:56, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Good job. -Will Beback 19:18, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge articles on smaller neighborhoods into articles for bigger ones? 

message: There is a list of neighborhoods on SFGOV.org, along with maps.  I didn't see any defined boundaries, at least from what I saw.  Please note that SFGOV, a.k.a. the "Official San Francisco City and County Web Site", is copyrighted, even though of course it's public information.  I'd especially be concerned about the use of their GIS data.  --Geopgeop 11:42, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There are official boundaries through GIS mapping if you turn on the "neighborhoods" layer.  GIS does disclaim the accuracy of their data but there's no problem in quoting the graphical boundaries in prose, and the maps can be used as the basis for a unique self-made drawing.   – Zedla (talk) 06:47, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  SFgov.org's list 

message: I think there should be a listing for whatever is considered "downtown" with mention of it in the intro.  -- SEWilco (talk) 22:31, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The city alternately considers Downtown to be synonymous only with the Tenderloin (property records, see )   or to center around Union Square (separate from the Tenderloin, ) – Zedla (talk) 07:21, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where is downtown 

message: The current definition of upper market in this article is not correct. What's the source? See here http://www.sfgov.org/site/planning_index.asp?id=66778 for "Upper Market" defined as Market St. between Octavia St. and Castro St.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.195.209.115 (talk) 00:49, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Upper Market 

message: Am I the first person to notice that there are in excess of 110 uses of the word "neighborhood" in this article? Can't we do something about this? --Ohconfucius ¡digame! 05:08, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Repetition ad nauseam 

message: I hadn't heard of "Midtown Terrace" before.  Is it a synonym of "West of Twin Peaks" (which is mentioned but not listed)? —Tamfang (talk) 18:49, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  WoTP 

message: I've lived in this area (at Frederick and Delmar) for 18 years, and this is the first I've ever heard of this neighborhood. My suspicion is that this is an invention for real estate listings on these two blocks on Frederick street.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Marschv (talk • contribs) 03:45, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Frederick Knob (deleted) 

message: Badly!
I'm wondering what the 'hood at Spring St & California is called . Help? --Pete Tillman (talk) 21:41, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Heh, "Deco Ghetto". Thanks for this. Doesn't seem to have an index map, either. Too bad I've never learned how to make wiki-maps.... ;-[  --Pete Tillman (talk) 18:41, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs an index map! 

message: Just dropping this reliable source resource here for use
http://www.sfgate.com/neighborhoods/
1fish2 (talk) 18:30, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Heh, "Deco Ghetto". Thanks for this. Doesn't seem to have an index map, either. Too bad I've never learned how to make wiki-maps.... ;-[  --Pete Tillman (talk) 18:41, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Resource, SFGate

message: I lived in San Francisco from 1969 to 2001. During my early years in San Francisco, I was a taxi-cab driver and a taxi-cab radio dispatcher for the old Yellow Cab Company at 8th & Townsend. As we sat at the radio and telephone exchange, there were large maps on the desks of all the districts and neighbourhoods of San Francisco. We quickly memorised all the districts of the city.
North Point was one of these locales. (I am not referring to North Beach ... but to the area in the far north-east end of the peninsula).
I do not see it in your Wikipedia article.
Amsterdave (talk) 09:14, 31 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  North Point is not listed ... 

message: I searched to find the description of my old neighborhood, Lakeview.  It took some searching to find that it is now called "Merced Heights" so I have added that quib to the Merced Heights description.  I find it pretty interesting that it's name changed but the other bordering neighborhoods' names did not change.  What is really interesting is how Oceanview, which is east of Lakeview, has no view to the ocean and growing up I recall on really clear days... which were far and few between in that area... we could see both Lake Merced and the Pacific Ocean.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mariacantrell (talk • contribs) 23:50, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lakeview, Where are You? 

message: There are three terms used in this page without real definition: neighborhood, sub-neighborhood and district.
Which is the official one used by San Francisco? Where do the other two come from?
Is there a hierarchy? (If so, then it should be sorted according to that with "sub-neighborhoods" put and marked as such in the description of the "parent" neighborhood, instead of blowing up the list unnecessary...)
Also the header mentions 40 "commonly used" neighborhoods, then in the next sentence switches to 36... which seems to be a problem, one of these numbers has to be wrong, but which one? And if that is really the consensus of what should be major neighborhoods, then why is the list over 100 names long? If it isn't a consensus, then why is the sentence included in the header-section?
And there still is no map... wasn't there a workshop for making things like that on wikipedia? Someone knowing where what should be shoul really draw something on an existing map and ask for getting it redrawn by one of the masterminds in the workshop...      --5.146.47.75 (talk) 16:02, 11 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: The official one used by the city is an unpopular way to map out the neighborhoods. SF locals and even articles here about the areas in SF have long drifted away from it. Just simply put it like this. First you got District, which means the 11 Supervisorial Districts that takes care of a group of neighborhoods which each has their own elected board, supervisor, and such. Then the neighborhoods themselves. "Sub-neighborhood" is basically a segment within a neighborhood that is commonly used in larger neighborhoods. Some neighborhoods may have District in their names but this term is unrelated to the one in supervisorial district. Wfrmsf (talk) 08:46, 15 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  What are you talking about? 

message: See Talk:Balboa_Park,_San_Francisco 
Bartash (talk) 19:28, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Balboa Park is not a neighborhood 

message: It would seem to me that someone (real estate brokers?) is trying to rename the "Outer Mission" neighborhood to "Cayuga Terrace".  Perhaps in hopes that we'll get a "Cayuga Park" in-fill station on BART.  Maybe it's some flunky on Ahsha Safai's staff.  Who knows.  Regardless, it seems we should merge these two sections, shouldn't we? -- RobLa (talk) 04:38, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cayuga Terrace/Outer Mission 

message: The word "District" have different meanings in the city of San Francisco. First there are the 11 Supervisorial Districts each having their own board, supervisor, and such that contain a group of neighborhoods. However, there are a handful of neighborhoods, specially larger ones like the Castro, Marina, Richmond, Sunset, Mission, and Bay View that has the word District in their names. Those two different meaning of "District" are not related to each other and there's clarification need to be added onto the main page. Wfrmsf (talk) 08:08, 15 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Distinguishing the word "District" from neighborhoods with "District" in their names 

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