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120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 6th St, between 1906 and 2026, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1900s; often about railroads and spur tracks, oil tanks and boilers, paving and grading.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 6th St, between 1906 and 2026
Most of them in the 1900s · 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 1930.21
Oil tanks and boilersFuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.11
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.10
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.9
Police stationsPolice stations and the sites bought for them.7
ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.6

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2020s4
    $24,516 granted to the Transgender District for street banners · 2026
  2. 2010s1
    Proposed, approved later: $16.2M in federal block grant money sought for community development · 2012
  3. 2000s5
    $41,667 released for Urban Solutions' Sixth Street revitalization work · 2003
  4. 1990s10
    Mission Bay housing site to be rezoned for commerce and industry · 1997
  5. 1980s1
    Proposed, approved later: Call to defend race in affirmative action · 1987
  6. 1960s1
    Proposal to open Owens Street and widen the Market and Castro intersection (outcome not in the record) · 1964
  7. 1950s1
    Board buys land for the St. Mary's Square garage despite objections · 1951
  8. 1940s1
    Proposed, approved later: City to give up the viaduct steel over Sixteenth and Illinois Streets · 1942
  9. 1930s15
    Proposed: bus route supplementing the No. 10 line · 1939
  10. 1920s26
    Proposed, approved later: payment of $1,610.88 to Butte Electric for the Treasurer's burglar alarm · 1927
  11. 1910s17
    Southern Pacific may not park cars on Bluxome Street by day · 1919
  12. 1900s38
    Payment of $7,728.75 to Terrill Brothers for work on the Hayes Street library approved · 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

Jessie StSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordMarket StSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordMint PlzSame block of the map, 8 decisions on recordMint StSame block of the map, 3 decisions on record

Overview

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