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Commercial St

119 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Commercial St, between 1906 and 2023, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about fire stations, sewers, oil tanks and boilers.

119
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Commercial St, between 1906 and 2023
Most of them in the 1910s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

Fire stationsEngine houses and fire stations.25
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.21
Oil tanks and boilersFuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.9
Clinics and hospitalsClinics, health centres and hospitals.9
SchoolsSchool sites bought, built and repaired.7
Police stationsPolice stations and the sites bought for them.5

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2020s3
    Proposed: to add Emperor Norton Place to the 600 block of Commercial Street · 2023
  2. 1990s4
    Proposal to release $622,661 to rebuild three Chinatown alleyways (outcome not in the record) · 1999
  3. 1980s12
    Proposed, approved later: Commercial Street to be closed to cars for a pedestrian mall · 1987
  4. 1960s3
    Rules adopted for stretches of Geary, Post, Sutter and Kearny. · 1967
  5. 1950s2
    Grant Avenue closed temporarily between Sacramento and Commercial Streets · 1954
  6. 1940s1
    Proposed: Marine Cooks pledge war support; parents ask for bomb shelters · 1941
  7. 1930s4
    Commercial Street's north half to get sidewalks and a retaining wall · 1930
  8. 1920s15
    Allen & Company sells land for the Harbor Emergency Hospital · 1924
  9. 1910s57
    Payment of $9,186.15 to A. J. Raisch for the Taraval Street line approved · 1918
  10. 1900s18
    $5500 for a two-story Harbor Police Station · 1906

The most notable decisions

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Every decision the record places on this street is here. 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

Clay StSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordSacramento StSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on record43rd Ave118 decisions on record, next to it in the rankingFederal118 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