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120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Beach St, between 1906 and 1994, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about railroads and spur tracks, paving and grading, sewers.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Beach St, between 1906 and 1994
Most of them in the 1920s · 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 1930.22
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.19
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.8
PG&E and the utilitiesThe gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.8
Fire stationsEngine houses and fire stations.4
Clinics and hospitalsClinics, health centres and hospitals.4

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1990s1
    Proposed: street artist spaces on Jefferson and Beach Streets · 1994
  2. 1980s3
    Street artists keep their selling spots on Beach Street · 1980
  3. 1970s4
    Proposed: Feinstein asks for a halt on buildings over 72 feet · 1971
  4. 1950s2
    $1.7M set aside for playgrounds and recreation areas · 1952
  5. 1940s9
    Proposed: charter amendment on cable properties at California and Hyde Streets · 1949
  6. 1930s2
    Option to buy California Packing's block at Beach and Hyde Streets · 1939
  7. 1920s45
    Payment of $3,333.33 to Georgiana Fransen for the Oakwood Street extension approved · 1929
  8. 1910s37
    Proposal to require railways to handle freight cars of connecting lines without delay (outcome not in the record) · 1913
  9. 1900s17
    Proposed: paying seven architects $31,617.25 for work on the new schools · 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