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120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Castro St, between 1906 and 2015, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1930s; often about schools, the rules for this street changed, environmental review.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Castro St, between 1906 and 2015
Most of them in the 1930s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

SchoolsSchool sites bought, built and repaired.19
The rules for this street changedRezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.13
Environmental reviewNothing before the 1970s, then permanent: the review law arriving and staying.10
Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.6
Land bought and soldLand changing hands with the city on one side of it.6
Blasting permitsPermission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.5

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2010s9
    Proposal to allow extra flats in buildings undergoing earthquake retrofits (outcome not in the record) · 2015
  2. 2000s3
    More time asked for Planning on Castro Street shop rules · 2000
  3. 1990s7
    Proposed, approved later: Design contract to rise from $9.5M to $14M · 1999
  4. 1980s9
    Zoning map updated for the Castro Street special district · 1980
  5. 1970s2
    Cost of underground electric connections on Castro Street billed to owners · 1977
  6. 1960s3
    Improvement ordered for Castro Street between 28th and Duncan Streets · 1965
  7. 1950s7
    Proposed: rules for disposing of unclaimed property at San Francisco Hospital · 1957
  8. 1940s5
    Farnum and Moffitt Street improvements backed with $1,200 in city aid · 1949
  9. 1930s36
    Four owners paid for school land near Castro and Clipper streets · 1930
  10. 1920s21
    Payment of $199,105.54 to Western Pipe & Steel for the bay crossing pipeline approved · 1923
  11. 1910s14
    Report on extending the Municipal Railway over Taraval Street · 1918
  12. 1900s4
    McKinley School to be built at Fourteenth and Castro Streets · 1906

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

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Overview

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