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Battery St

120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Battery St, between 1906 and 2003, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about oil tanks and boilers, parking, railroads and spur tracks.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Battery St, between 1906 and 2003
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What keeps coming up

Oil tanks and boilersFuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.17
ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.15
Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.6
Blasting permitsPermission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.4
Taxis and garagesTaxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.4
Environmental reviewNothing before the 1970s, then permanent: the review law arriving and staying.3

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2000s1
    Proposed: $40 fee for domestic partnership filings · 2003
  2. 1990s3
    One-way traffic adopted on Linden Street, tow-away on Manchester Street · 1993
  3. 1980s20
    Proposed, approved later: Commercial Street to be closed to cars for a pedestrian mall · 1987
  4. 1970s8
    Washington, Clay and Battery Streets to be widened near Davis Street · 1977
  5. 1960s6
    Turns set from Broadway into Sansome and Embarcadero into Bay · 1969
  6. 1950s7
    Proposed: extra welfare payments as the Public Welfare Department asked · 1952
  7. 1940s6
    Parking banned day and night on Clay and Jessie Streets · 1947
  8. 1930s10
    $332,714 to widen and resurface eleven streets, Folsom Street the largest · 1935
  9. 1920s19
    Proposed: $1,709.55 for beacon posts on the Market Street safety islands · 1929
  10. 1910s18
    Proposal to ban digging in Battery Street (outcome not in the record) · 1916
  11. 1900s22
    $4,000 set aside for a sewer on Pine Street · 1907

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

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Overview

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