Street
Beale St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Beale St, between 1906 and 2025, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about railroads and spur tracks, sewers, parking.
What keeps coming up
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2020s4Proposed: finding the Piers 30-32 development on the Embarcadero financially feasible · 2024
- 2010s1Proposed: urging companies to divest from coal and tar sands · 2018
- 2000s2Imperial Parking to run a parking lot on the Embarcadero · 2003
- 1990s18Proposed: changing the Rincon Point plan to allow homes, offices and taller buildings · 1991
- 1980s4Proposal to close Beale, First and Townsend Streets at the Embarcadero (outcome not in the record) · 1989
- 1950s1Proposed: a Southern Pacific spur track on First Street · 1950
- 1940s1City leases state land at Beale and Howard Streets · 1940
- 1930s11$228,000 for a trolley bus line from Beale to Army Street · 1939
- 1920s22Proposal to set aside money for rebuilding Beale Street from Mission to Embarcadero (outcome not in the record) · 1928
- 1910s44Proposed: $11,587.50 to E. W. Elliot for building the Park Police Station · 1910
- 1900s12Beale Street regraded and a steel bridge built at Harrison Street · 1909
The most notable decisions
$228,000 for a trolley bus line from Beale to Army Street
Ordinance · 1939 ↗2 October 1939Failed: proposal to fund a trolley bus line from Beale to Army Street for $228,000
Ordinance · 1939 ↗6 March 1939Proposed: changing the Rincon Point plan to allow homes, offices and taller buildings
Ordinance · proposed · 1991 ↗12 November 1991Proposed: $11,587.50 to E. W. Elliot for building the Park Police Station
Resolution · proposed · 1910 ↗18 July 1910$89,600 for a bridge carrying Harrison Street over Beale Street
Ordinance · 1936 ↗27 April 1936
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Proposed, approved later: $89,600 for a bridge carrying Harrison Street over Beale Street
Ordinance · passed · 1936 ↗6 April 1936Failed: proposal for a trolley bus line from Beale Street to Army Street
Ordinance · 1939 ↗24 July 1939Proposed: Health Department hiring ten meat inspectors
Ordinance · proposed · 1910 ↗8 August 1910Proposed: $4,500 for plans for schools the Building Committee will choose
Resolution · proposed · 1912 ↗25 March 1912Proposed, approved later: Homes and taller buildings proposed for the South Beach renewal area
Ordinance · passed · 1991 ↗26 August 1991
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