Nob Hill
Neighborhood Intelligence

Nob Hill rises west of Chinatown and the Financial District, running from Post Street north to roughly Clay Street, Pacific Avenue, and Vallejo Street, and from Van Ness Avenue east to Mason and Stockton streets. SF Planning's Nob Hill analysis neighborhood includes the hilltop around Huntington Park and Grace Cathedral, Lower Nob Hill between Post and Bush streets, and much of Polk Gulch along Polk Street. Three cable car lines climb through the area, and the Cable Car Museum on Mason Street houses the system's powerhouse.

Housing is overwhelmingly multi-unit: early twentieth-century apartment buildings, residential hotels, and high-rise cooperatives and condominiums near the summit, along with luxury hotels such as the Fairmont. Zoning is dominated by RM-3 and RM-4 residential-mixed districts and RC-4 high-density residential-commercial zoning, with the Polk Street Neighborhood Commercial District (NCD) along Polk, a small Pacific Avenue NCD, and C-3-G and C-3-R parcels at the downtown edge. Grace Cathedral, Huntington Park, and the San Francisco Masonic Auditorium cluster at the top of California Street.