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120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 2nd St, between 1906 and 2018, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about railroads and spur tracks, parking, the rules for this street changed.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 2nd St, between 1906 and 2018
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 1930.43
ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.15
The rules for this street changedRezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.8
Streetcars and transitStreetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.5
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.4
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.4

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2010s15
    Proposal to add the Central SoMa plan to the city's General Plan (outcome not in the record) · 2018
  2. 2000s1
    Proposed, approved later: new transit fee on developers · 2004
  3. 1990s7
    Proposed, approved later: parking ban on Second and Townsend Streets passed on · 1998
  4. 1960s1
    Evening stopping ban lifted on Folsom Street between Essex and Second · 1961
  5. 1950s3
    Daytime stopping banned on Jessie Street between New Montgomery and Second · 1957
  6. 1940s5
    City land on Second Street sold to the Moulins for $7,500 · 1947
  7. 1930s16
    Felton Company may switch railcars on Second Street at any hour · 1933
  8. 1920s18
    Proposed: Robert L. Dunn presents plans for a bridge to Alameda · 1926
  9. 1910s30
    Proposed: ban on street banners and signs · 1918
  10. 1900s24
    Proposal for United Railroads to lay track curves at Second and Market streets (outcome not in the record) · 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