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Market that is low in residences, to have your neighborhood re-labeled is generally resented by people who live there. Many neighborhoods in San
Francisco began as late 19thC homesteads or early 20thC developments. The name “Balboa Park” was never used for either of this type of residential area. A review of references in the San Francisco Chronicle revealed that over the last one hundred years “Balboa Park” refers almost exclusively to the public park, especially sporting events held there, or it serves as a truncated version of the name of the BART/Muni Station. Occasionally a house fronting the park itself is listed in real estate ads as “Balboa Park,” just as a house fronting Golden Gate Park might use that designation to advertise. But this is the exception that proves the rule.
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Balboa Park. It is also over a quarter mile from the Balboa Park BART Station, which, in a stretch, might have been what the resident meant. His house is squarely in
Mission Terrace; alternately, the SF Planning Dept (and consequently real estate websites such as Zillow) lists as this area as “Cayuga.” Both neighborhoods have Knowledge (XXG) pages. San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco CA), 27 Apr 2014, Page 387.
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255:“Balboa Park” has no meaning in the context of current neighborhood activism or organizations. There is no neighborhood association or group that contains the name “Balboa Park” in the City’s Neighborhood Contact List, San Francisco Planning Dept., nor can any such organization be found via internet search.
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The name “Balboa Park” has no meaningful history of use outside of being the name of a public park and part of the name of a transit station. Neighborhoods have histories. Although there have been some recently invented neighborhood names in San
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Interestingly, as another exception that proves the rule, in a 2014 SF Chronicle feature about home automation, the residence of the subject of the article is described as a “modest Balboa Park home,” yet that house, being near the intersection of Cayuga and Navaho
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Francisco does not recognize any neighborhood called “Balboa Park.” There is no neighborhood called “Balboa Park” in the City’s Neighborhood Groups Map, San Francisco Planning Dept.
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NextDoor.com, the popular social media website based on neighborhoods, does not recognize “Balboa Park” as a neighborhood.
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