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120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Bush St, between 1907 and 2009, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1900s; often about fire stations, oil tanks and boilers, taxis and garages.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Bush St, between 1907 and 2009
Most of them in the 1900s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

Fire stationsEngine houses and fire stations.19
Oil tanks and boilersFuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.13
Taxis and garagesTaxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.9
Blasting permitsPermission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.8
Clinics and hospitalsClinics, health centres and hospitals.7
Keeping horses and cowsUntil about 1930 the Board voted on whether you could keep animals at your address.6

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2000s4
    Proposal to treat mentally ill parolees with a $1.9M state grant (outcome not in the record) · 2009
  2. 1990s1
    Proposed: $1.7M to move the Paramedic Division to the Fire Department · 1997
  3. 1980s10
    Proposed: extending the home demolition ban · 1987
  4. 1970s4
    Steiner and Bush Street corner rezoned for shops · 1973
  5. 1960s6
    Bond money allotted to rebuild fire houses and headquarters · 1965
  6. 1940s9
    Board of Education lets the airport build at Bush and Stockton · 1946
  7. 1930s9
    $154,503 for a Shoals Administration Building at Stockton and Bush streets · 1936
  8. 1920s21
    Proposal for Pacific Telephone to lease the Bush Street firehouse site for ten years (outcome not in the record) · 1927
  9. 1910s24
    Payment of $22,000 to Centenary Methodist Church for land for Lowell High School approved · 1912
  10. 1900s32
    Failed: proposal to ban carpet beating shops, tanneries and shoddy mills in some areas · 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

Streets near it on the record

Grant AveSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordKearny StSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordPine StSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordBuchanan St120+ decisions on record, next to it in the ranking

Overview

The city, drawn from its own recordEvery block, and what the Board of Supervisors decided there