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5th St

120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 5th St, between 1906 and 2009, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about fire stations, sewers, railroads and spur tracks.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 5th St, between 1906 and 2009
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What keeps coming up

Fire stationsEngine houses and fire stations.13
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.11
Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.10
Blasting permitsPermission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.7
SchoolsSchool sites bought, built and repaired.6
ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.5

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2000s3
    Proposed, approved later: Castro Street bars could get entertainment permits without special permission · 2004
  2. 1990s5
    Part of Channel Street to be closed for good · 1990
  3. 1980s5
    Board moves to start Mid-Market controls between Fifth and Ninth Streets · 1985
  4. 1970s13
    Proposal to accept a gift of a pavilion for Hallidie Plaza (outcome not in the record) · 1975
  5. 1960s8
    Proposal to spend $101,800 for land on the Fifth Street extension, plus firehouse money (outcome not in the record) · 1967
  6. 1950s3
    George Willard Somers sells Mission Street land for $301,425 · 1957
  7. 1940s11
    Proposed: Army-Navy board's call for a new bay tube and rapid transit · 1947
  8. 1930s9
    Proposed: bonds to cut Fifth Street through Market Street · 1937
  9. 1920s21
    Lease of Stevenson Street lot requires an eight-story building for firemen · 1923
  10. 1910s26
    Proposed, approved later: payment of $12,144.75 to F. H. Born for building the Hancock Grammar School · 1910
  11. 1900s16
    Proposed, approved later: payment of $13,500 to Pacific Coast Waiters for a firehouse site · 1909

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

4th StSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordFolsom StSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordHarrison StSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordClara StSame block of the map, 35 decisions on record

Overview

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