Forest Hill

Forest Hill is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California. 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...