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79 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 12th St, between 1906 and 2021, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about railroads and spur tracks, theatres and shows, sewers.

79
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 12th St, between 1906 and 2021
Most of them in the 1920s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.35
Theatres and showsTheatres, cinemas and travelling shows.5
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.2
Police stationsPolice stations and the sites bought for them.2
ChurchesCongregations, and the buildings they asked the city about.2
Land bought and soldLand changing hands with the city on one side of it.2

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2020s2
    Proposed: Leather History Cruise plaques for sidewalks in the Leather district · 2021
  2. 1970s2
    Land on Kissling Street rezoned for commercial use · 1972
  3. 1960s1
    Power lines to go underground at Fisherman's Wharf and Twelfth Street · 1966
  4. 1940s7
    Plan taken up to fix traffic south of Market Street · 1944
  5. 1930s9
    Proposed: banning daytime parking along Market Street from the Embarcadero to Franklin · 1937
  6. 1920s27
    Failed: Exposition Preservation League offers the city Marina land near Fort Mason · 1922
  7. 1910s21
    John A. Fears allowed a spur track off Mission Street · 1919
  8. 1900s10
    Proposal for United Railroads to lay track curves at Second and Market streets (outcome not in the record) · 1908

The most notable decisions

  • Failed: Exposition Preservation League offers the city Marina land near Fort Mason

    Motion · 1922 ↗
    5 September 1922

  • Proposal for United Railroads to lay track curves at Second and Market streets (outcome not in the record)

    Ordinance · 1908 ↗
    21 September 1908

  • Proposed: banning daytime parking along Market Street from the Embarcadero to Franklin

    Ordinance · proposed · 1937 ↗
    28 June 1937

  • Failed: proposal to extend Van Ness Avenue from Mission to Howard

    Resolution · 1928 ↗
    24 September 1928

  • Land on Van Ness Avenue South leased to the highest bidder

    Ordinance · 1937 ↗
    15 March 1937
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Every decision the record places on this street is here. 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

Streets near it on the record

Howard StSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordSouth Van Ness AveSame block of the map, 105 decisions on record13th StSame block of the map, 40 decisions on recordSickles Ave78 decisions on record, next to it in the ranking

Overview

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