West of Twin Peaks
Neighborhood Intelligence

West of Twin Peaks is an SF Planning Analysis Neighborhood that groups many smaller residential districts on the slopes south and west of Twin Peaks, between 19th Avenue on the west, Quintara Street and Woodside Avenue on the north, O'Shaughnessy Boulevard and I-280 on the east, and Ocean and Holloway Avenues on the south. It includes West Portal, Forest Hill, Forest Hill Extension, St. Francis Wood, Monterey Heights, Sherwood Forest, Miraloma Park, Mount Davidson Manor, Balboa Terrace, Westwood Park, Westwood Highlands, Ingleside Terraces, and Sunnyside, along with the Lakeside area near Ocean Avenue. About 36,687 residents live here in roughly 14,850 housing units.

Housing is mostly detached and semi-detached single-family homes, many in early-twentieth-century residence parks with landscaped streets. SF Planning Code zoning is dominated by RH-1(D) and RH-1, with some RH-2 and RTO-C along transit corridors. Commercial districts include the West Portal Avenue NCD, Inner Taraval Street NCD, Lakeside Village NCD, and the Ocean Avenue NCT, and the Balboa Reservoir site is zoned BR-MU. Mount Davidson Park and the City College of San Francisco Ocean Campus are within its boundaries.