Inner Sunset
Neighborhood Intelligence

Inner Sunset sits directly south of Golden Gate Park, running from Lincoln Way down to Quintara and Pacheco streets and from 19th Avenue east to Stanyan Street and Clarendon Avenue. SF Planning's Inner Sunset analysis neighborhood is broader than the flat blocks around Irving Street and 9th Avenue: it also takes in the hillside enclaves of Golden Gate Heights, Forest Knolls, Clarendon Heights, and parts of Parnassus Heights and Inner Parkside. The commercial heart is the Irving Street and 9th Avenue corridor, while the UCSF Parnassus campus and the forested slopes of Mount Sutro define its eastern edge.

Housing is mostly single-family homes and two-unit buildings, including rows of attached early twentieth-century houses on the avenues and detached homes on the curving streets of Golden Gate Heights and Forest Knolls. Zoning is dominated by RH-1, RH-1(D), and RH-2 residential districts, with the Inner Sunset Neighborhood Commercial District (NCD) along Irving Street, 9th Avenue, and Judah Street, RTO-C parcels along transit corridors such as 19th Avenue, and a large P (Public) footprint covering UCSF and open space. Grand View Park, the 16th Avenue Tiled Steps, and the Mount Sutro Open Space Reserve are among its best-known public spaces.