| Forest Hill | |
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| — Neighborhood of San Francisco — | |
| Stairway into Forest Hill from Pacheco Street and Dewey Boulevard up to Magellan Avenue. | |
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Forest Hill
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| Government | |
| • Board of Supervisors | Sean Elsbernd |
| • State Assembly | Fiona Ma (D) |
| • State Senate | Leland Yee (D) |
| • U.S. House | Jackie Speier (D) |
| Area[1] | |
| • Total | 0.9 km2 (0.359 sq mi) |
| • Land | 0.9 km2 (0.359 sq mi) |
| Population (2008)[1] | |
| • Total | 3,106 |
| • Density | 3,344.8/km2 (8,663/sq mi) |
| ZIP Code | 94116 |
| Area code(s) | 415 |
Forest Hill is an neighborhood in San Francisco, California.
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Forest Hill is located near the middle of the city, south of the Inner Sunset and northeast of West Portal. Boundaries are roughly Seventh Avenue/Laguna Honda Boulevard to the east, Taraval Street to the south, and 14th Avenue to the west.
Construction on the neighborhood began in 1912, on land originally owned by Adolph Sutro was purchased from his heirs by a private firm. Streets in Forest Hill were not built to San Francisco's specific standards regarding width, grade, etc., and therefore were not accepted nor maintained by the City until 1978. (Many of the streets are extravagantly landscaped curving lanes.)
Forest Hill is one of the only non-condominium developments in the San Francisco that has an active homeowners' association, requiring membership of all property owners and payment of an annual fee for maintenance of the planted common areas owned by the association [1] The association also governs remodeling and new construction.
The area south of Dewey Boulevard is known as Laguna Honda or Forest Hill Extension. The extension is another section of Forest Hill, except with smaller homes and more moderate pricing. The name Laguna Honda means "Deep Lagoon" in Spanish and presumably refers to the Laguna Honda Reservoir at the intersection of Laguna Honda Boulevard and Clarendon Avenue.
Laguna Honda Hospital and the Muni Metro Forest Hill Station are located between Forest Hill and Laguna Honda, near the intersection of Laguna Honda Boulevard and Dewey Boulevard. School of the Arts high school is on Portola Drive near Woodside Avenue, in the south-eastern corner of Laguna Honda. As the name implies, landscaping throughout Forest Hill is unusually lush for San Francisco: Magellan Avenue's elms make it one of the few streets in the city with a true tree canopy. Several homes and a community clubhouse designed by celebrated California Arts and Crafts Movement architect Bernard Maybeck add to the picturesque, rustic quality of the neighborhood.[2]
Forest Hill [2] is one of the least densely populated neighborhoods in San Francisco and residents take pride in what they perceive as a small-town community. The Forest Hill Association, [3], has been serving the residents of Forest Hill for nearly one hundred years, and holds its Board meetings on first Monday evening of each month at the clubhouse. The historic Forest Hill clubhouse[4] on Magellan Avenue is also home of the Forest Hill Garden Club [5], the neighborhood women's social organization founded in 1931 to promote the cultivating of flowers and gardens in the community. The Clubhouse is also the site of the Forest Hill Musical Days,[6], an intimate neighborhood chamber music festival, founded in 2003 by pianist Mari Kodama and her husband, conductor Kent Nagano, both of whom are residents of the neighborhood. The festival is organized entirely by volunteers from the neighborhood, as music loving residents open their homes to host performing artists from all over Europe.
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