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120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about California St, between 1906 and 2024, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about railroads and spur tracks, schools, streetcars and transit.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about California St, between 1906 and 2024
Most of them in the 1910s · 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 1930.10
SchoolsSchool sites bought, built and repaired.10
Streetcars and transitStreetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.8
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.6
Blasting permitsPermission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.4
The rules for this street changedRezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.4

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2020s5
    Proposal to approve the Greater Union Square district annual report (outcome not in the record) · 2021
  2. 2010s3
    Proposed: a forty-five day freeze on institutional changes in University Mound · 2014
  3. 2000s11
    Proposed: easier rules for setting up business improvement districts · 2004
  4. 1980s3
    Proposed: anti-Klan rally at United Nations Plaza · 1980
  5. 1970s2
    Miles Street north of California Street closed for good · 1971
  6. 1960s4
    Proposed, approved later: $3,172 to fit out the radio shop at 1745 California Street; put over to a later meeting; later adopted · 1960
  7. 1950s9
    Board buys land for the St. Mary's Square garage despite objections · 1951
  8. 1940s9
    $29,540 paid to Mayfair Heights Corporation for more school land · 1946
  9. 1930s4
    Gas tax money agreed for Ocean Avenue and Islais Creek bridge · 1936
  10. 1920s24
    Land on Twenty-second Avenue given over for a new school · 1923
  11. 1910s30
    Proposal to pay $15,645 to Anderson & Ringrose for building the Argonne School (outcome not in the record) · 1919
  12. 1900s16
    Payment of $7,500 to Mary Trobock for land for St. Mary's Square approved · 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

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