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120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Bay St, between 1908 and 2024, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about railroads and spur tracks, paving and grading, pg&e and the utilities.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Bay St, between 1908 and 2024
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What keeps coming up

Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.14
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.10
PG&E and the utilitiesThe gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.9
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.6
Fire stationsEngine houses and fire stations.5
Protests and appealsA protest recorded at a hearing, or an appeal against a decision — brought by neighbours and by applicants alike.5

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2020s2
    Proposal to give JPPF a 57-year lease on Waterfront Plaza at the Embarcadero (outcome not in the record) · 2024
  2. 2010s2
    Proposal to accept a $25M gift of park building work from the Francisco Park Conservancy (outcome not in the record) · 2016
  3. 2000s4
    Proposal to amend Kira Mikagon's restaurant lease at Pier 33 South (outcome not in the record) · 2000
  4. 1990s2
    AC Transit to run a welfare-to-work bus to Powell and Bay · 1999
  5. 1980s5
    Emergency work ordered on the sewer under Bay Street · 1987
  6. 1970s13
    Land near North Point and Bay Streets rezoned for public use · 1974
  7. 1960s5
    Proposed: making parts of Sansome and Battery Streets through streets · 1969
  8. 1950s3
    Proposed: seeking an international exposition in San Francisco, 1962 · 1957
  9. 1940s14
    Land to be acquired at Marino Vista Park, San Mateo County · 1947
  10. 1930s16
    Proposed: approving city ownership of the electric supply · 1936
  11. 1920s16
    Block bought from Harriet de Witt Kittle for a school, $118,750 · 1924
  12. 1910s28
    Proposed: Municipal railway on Van Ness Avenue from Market to Bay · 1913
  13. 1900s10
    Frank Stringham given a rail franchise on Stockton and Bay streets · 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

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Overview

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