Street
Chestnut St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Chestnut St, between 1910 and 2017, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about the rules for this street changed, streetcars and transit, parking.
What keeps coming up
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2010s2Proposed: Jamestown as tenant of the Pier 29 Bulkhead Building · 2017
- 2000s5Proposal to change parking on Webster, Lyon, 7th and Lathrop Streets (outcome not in the record) · 2004
- 1990s10$300,000 ordered to stop rockfalls on Telegraph Hill at Kearny Street · 1993
- 1980s3Proposed: height limits near Bush and Broderick Streets · 1987
- 1970s5Stop signs tried for 90 days at Pierce and Chestnut · 1974
- 1960s2Angle parking adopted for Chestnut Street and Spear Street · 1969
- 1950s3$96,000 voted for underground railway ducts on Chestnut Street · 1955
- 1940s3Proposed, approved later: buildings between Grant Avenue and the Embarcadero to be limited to sixty feet; sent to committee; later finally passed · 1945
- 1930s24Proposed, approved later: buildings capped at 290 feet between Greenwich and Union streets · 1932
- 1920s43Voters to decide on $4.6M in Municipal Railway extension bonds · 1927
- 1910s20Proposed: stopping car service on Fillmore Street north of Chestnut Street · 1913
The most notable decisions
Voters to decide on $4.6M in Municipal Railway extension bonds
Ordinance · 1927 ↗3 October 1927Proposed, approved later: buildings between Grant Avenue and the Embarcadero to be limited to sixty feet; sent to committee; later finally passed
Ordinance · passed · 1945 ↗29 January 1945City buys a school site from Mercantile Trust for $209,951
Resolution · 1925 ↗6 April 1925Payment of $11,050 to A. Paladini's estate for Francisco School land approved
Resolution · passed · 1923 ↗24 September 1923Proposed, approved later: payment of $11,050 to A. Paladini's estate for Francisco School land
Resolution · passed · 1923 ↗17 September 1923
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Proposal to change building rules on the block at Chestnut and Mallorca (outcome not in the record)
Ordinance · 1924 ↗27 October 1924Proposed: to sell Moccasin Creek power to the Modesto Irrigation District
Resolution · proposed · 1926 ↗23 August 1926Proposed, approved later: buildings capped at 290 feet between Greenwich and Union streets
Ordinance · passed · 1932 ↗20 June 1932Buildings capped at 290 feet between Greenwich and Union streets
Ordinance · 1932 ↗13 June 1932Proposed, approved later: buildings to be capped at 290 feet between Greenwich and Union streets
Ordinance · passed · 1932 ↗29 April 1932
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