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Castro/Upper Market

1,569 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Castro/Upper Market, between 1906 and 2026, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about keeping horses and cows, streetcars and transit, land bought and sold.

1,569
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Castro/Upper Market, between 1906 and 2026
Most of them in the 1910s · Open on the map, with its record

Its busiest streets

Market St120+Castro St120+Church St120+Sanchez St120+Roosevelt Way120+Caselli Ave59Liberty St27Landers St19

What keeps coming up

Keeping horses and cowsUntil about 1930 the Board voted on whether you could keep animals at your address.95
Streetcars and transitStreetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.66
Land bought and soldLand changing hands with the city on one side of it.39
LandmarksBuildings the city decided to keep.28
Dance halls and masqueradesPermits for balls and dances, named by the club holding them and the hall they hired.26

Decade by decade

Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.

  1. 2020s44
    $11.6M purchase of 2280 Market Street finally passed · 2024
  2. 2010s86
    $21M in housing bonds sought for 462 Duboce Avenue · 2015
  3. 2000s47
    $180,047 planned to turn a 2500 Market Street gym into housing · 2000
  4. 1990s78
    Permit parking extended in Duboce Triangle to Eighteenth and Nineteenth Streets · 1990
  5. 1980s82
    Temporary zoning rules set for Castro Street between Market and Nineteenth · 1980
  6. 1970s58
    Glen Park Branch Library to rent 2838-42 Diamond Street · 1972
  7. 1960s37
    Health clinics leased at 680 Howard Street and 498 Sanchez Street · 1962
  8. 1950s52
    $500 voted for the Lois Reubold estate's land for a school · 1953
  9. 1940s43
    Market Street Railway allowed new track along Mariposa and Illinois Streets · 1944
  10. 1930s115
    Market Street Railway allowed a bus route from Sixteenth and Bryant · 1931
  11. 1920s387
    Voters to decide in November on a $2.2M sewer bond · 1928
  12. 1910s439
    Market Street streetcar extension to Kearny Street finally passed · 1916
  13. 1900s101
    Frank Rosenau paid $6,900 for land for the Everett Grammar School · 1909

The most notable decisions

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This page carries the 12 most notable decisions of each decade, 156 of the 1,569 on record; the rest are on its streets. Every line is written from one item in the minutes of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, the city council, and links to the page it was printed on at the Internet Archive or in the Clerk's own files. Many of the Board's decisions name no street at all, and only the ones that do can be placed here. How the record was read · The whole city

See also

Neighbourhoods next to it

West of Twin Peaks4,327 decisions on recordTenderloin4,175 decisions on recordMarina3,797 decisions on recordBernal Heights3,284 decisions on recordExcelsior3,161 decisions on record

Overview

The city, drawn from its own recordEvery block, and what the Board of Supervisors decided there