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120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 1st St, between 1907 and 1999, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about railroads and spur tracks, sewers, paving and grading.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 1st St, between 1907 and 1999
Most of them in the 1910s · 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 1930.20
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.14
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.11
ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.9
Oil tanks and boilersFuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.5
The rules for this street changedRezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.5

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1990s23
    Proposed: changing the Rincon Point plan to allow homes, offices and taller buildings · 1991
  2. 1980s6
    $50M in bonds for 414 flats on Townsend Street · 1985
  3. 1970s2
    Continental Trailways keeps its First Street space until 1979 · 1976
  4. 1950s4
    Land taken near Bryant and First Streets, Fremont Street to close · 1951
  5. 1940s3
    Overhead wires banned on First Street between Harrison and Bryant · 1940
  6. 1930s16
    Fire limits extended to Sixth, First, Howard and Brannan streets · 1934
  7. 1920s17
    Sidewalks abolished on Elim Alley between First and Ecker streets · 1920
  8. 1910s37
    Sidewalks on San Bruno Avenue set at eight and ten feet · 1913
  9. 1900s12
    Proposed, approved later: Williams & Belser to be paid for building the First Street sewer · 1908

The most notable decisions

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The street holds more than 120 decisions; this page carries the 120 most notable. 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

Tehama StSame block of the map, 54 decisions on recordClementina StSame block of the map, 44 decisions on record19th St120+ decisions on record, next to it in the ranking20th Ave120+ 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