Street
8th St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 8th St, between 1906 and 2013, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about the rules for this street changed, parking, railroads and spur tracks.
What keeps coming up
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2010s24Proposal to set a monthly city contribution for the Health Service Trust Fund (outcome not in the record) · 2012
- 2000s9Proposed: to close Jessie Street for good for a federal office building · 2000
- 1990s5Sidewalk widths changed at Brannan and Eighth Streets · 1993
- 1980s13Taller buildings allowed on Townsend Street for the Showplace Market Center · 1986
- 1960s1Proposed, approved later: Townsend Street sidewalk to be set at nine feet wide · 1965
- 1940s4Part of Eighth Street between Alameda and DeHaro to be closed · 1949
- 1930s12City block on De Haro Street to be leased out · 1937
- 1920s26Proposed: Scavengers Protective Union running the Eighth Street incinerator for seven years · 1926
- 1910s23Proposal to raise Bryant Street four feet at Ninth Street (outcome not in the record) · 1913
- 1900s3A stable for horses allowed on Eighth Street near Harrison Street · 1907
The most notable decisions
Proposal to set a monthly city contribution for the Health Service Trust Fund (outcome not in the record)
Resolution · 2012 ↗24 January 2012Taller buildings allowed on Townsend Street for the Showplace Market Center
Ordinance · 1986 ↗22 December 1986Proposed, approved later: Taller buildings to be allowed on Townsend Street for the Showplace Market Center
Ordinance · passed · 1986 ↗8 December 1986Proposal to change the zoning map for Townsend, Seventh and Eighth Streets (outcome not in the record)
Motion · 1986 ↗22 December 1986Proposed, approved later: Taller buildings proposed on Townsend, Seventh and Eighth Streets
Ordinance · passed · 1986 ↗3 November 1986
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City block on De Haro Street to be leased out
Ordinance · 1937 ↗9 August 1937Proposed, approved later: City block on De Haro Street to be leased out
Ordinance · passed · 1937 ↗26 July 1937Loading only on Market Street from Battery to Hyde by day
Ordinance · 1937 ↗11 October 1937Proposed, approved later: $71,750 solar grant to be accepted from the Energy Department
Resolution · passed · 2012 ↗1 May 2012Sidewalk widths changed at Brannan and Eighth Streets
Ordinance · 1993 ↗19 July 1993
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