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2025 BTHA Monthly
Board Meeting Schedule
In 2025 the BTHA Board of Directors will continue its practice of holding most Board meetings on the first Monday of the month at 7:30 p.m. The exceptions to the foregoing are the months of January and September when the BTHA Board will meet on the second Monday of the month on account of the New Year’s, Fourth of July, and Labor Day holiday weekends. Those dates are January 13, July 14, and September 8. BTHA Board meetings will continue to be via Zoom until further notice.
Next Monthly BTHA Board Meeting
Monday, Oct. 6, 2025 / 7:30 - 9:00 PM
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COME ONE, COME ALL
ANNUAL HOA PICNIC AND POTLUCK RETURNS SEPT. 13
Come meet your neighbors, bring a potluck dish to share, enjoy the food and fun at the annual Balboa Terrace Picnic. Pizza (courtesy of Little Original Joe’s West Portal), beverages, paper goods and utensils will be provided. But it’s strictly BYOB – Bring Your Own Blanket!
Can you volunteer from 10-11:30 a.m.? We need a minimum of 24 volunteers to make this event happen. Contact Honoria Sarmento, honorias@balboaterrace.org, if you can help. Tasks include:
Flyer distribution
Set up and clean up
Pizza servers
Greeters
Game monitors
Goodie bag assembly
There will be bouncy houses*, games, face painting, kids’ goodie bags, a firetruck visit and live music by our neighbor Sam Cadelinia.
JOIN US AND ENJOY!
*Children need to be supervised at all times by parents/guardians. HOA assumes no responsibility for safety.
IMPORTANT NOTICE
FAMILY ZONING PLAN HEARING
On Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025 the San Francisco Planning Commission has scheduled the first adoption hearing of the San Francisco Family Zoning Plan. If you are able to attend in person, the hearing is scheduled for noon in Room 400, City Hall.
Here is a copy of the full agenda for Sept. 11.
Designed to expand housing affordability and create the capacity to build more than 36,000 homes on San Francisco’s north and west sides, the plan allows for increases of two-, four- or more stories in height near transit, shopping and on major streets. Balboa Terrace could be affected – four-story buildings on any interior lot and six-story buildings on any corner or lot exceeding 8,000 feet.
At the Sept. 8 Board of Directors meeting, neighbors from Ingleside Terraces shared a presentation and letter with us. While the Board has not taken a position on this latest update, we want to keep you informed.
Links to those documents are below. You may contact Mayor Lurie, the Board of Supervisors and the Planning Commissioners. The letter is an example only; you may modify the letter as needed.
Letter to Mayor, San Francisco Planning Commission and Other City Officials
CC&Rs/Bylaws Revisions
The Balboa Terrace Homes Association must update its Governing documents. An association-wide vote to approve the revised Governing Documents will be scheduled in January 2026.
Why Must BTHA Adopt Revised Governing Documents?
Our governing documents have remained largely unchanged since their inception in 1920, making them outdated and noncompliant with both state and federal laws. Additionally, these original documents did not anticipate the major shifts in state and local zoning laws that now threaten to fundamentally alter the character of Balboa Terrace. To ensure our community remains a historic single-family home enclave, it is essential to modernize our governing framework to protect against unwanted development pressures. Finally, California has adopted a robust set of laws regulating HOAs, primarily found in the Davis-Stirling Act. We need to update our governing documents to be compliant with that law and others that apply to HOAs.
A comprehensive summary of governing document changes and the rationale behind many of the updates is available in the summary below.
Frequently Asked
Questions and Answers
Answers to questions raised at the Town Hall and House Meetings.
Copies of the existing CC&Rs and Bylaws can be requested from BAPS Management or viewed on the Homeowner Info page here.
Restated CC&Rs and Bylaws Updates
To be voted on in January 2026.
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