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120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Channel St, between 1906 and 2020, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1900s; often about paving and grading, sewers, railroads and spur tracks.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Channel St, between 1906 and 2020
Most of them in the 1900s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.17
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.13
Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.10
ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.10
Streets closed for goodStreets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.9
Environmental reviewNothing before the 1970s, then permanent: the review law arriving and staying.7

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2020s3
    Mission Bay streets to be renamed, with Channel Street becoming Mission Creek · 2020
  2. 2010s10
    $400,000 from the Norcal land swap finally passed · 2010
  3. 2000s5
    Turn bans at Columbus Avenue and transit lanes at Candlestick Park · 2004
  4. 1990s4
    $100,000 emergency repair to the Owens Street force main · 1995
  5. 1980s10
    Proposed: inviting bids to lease the closed part of Channel Street · 1987
  6. 1970s2
    Sewer work allowed near the Embarcadero, Channel Street and Islais Creek · 1976
  7. 1950s5
    Southern Pacific land bought for $15,825 for a sewage pumping station · 1959
  8. 1940s6
    Street levels changed on Channel Street and Carolina Street · 1940
  9. 1930s3
    Gas tax money agreed for Ocean Avenue and Islais Creek bridge · 1936
  10. 1920s22
    Proposed: a State bill giving the city the Channel Street lands · 1929
  11. 1910s17
    Proposed: $4,906.05 to pipe water to the University Mound District · 1915
  12. 1900s33
    Payment of $4,000 m to Terrill Brothers ore for the Page and Cole library 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

Streets near it on the record

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Overview

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