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Folsom St

120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Folsom St, between 1907 and 2026, 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, sewers.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Folsom St, between 1907 and 2026
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 1930.24
SchoolsSchool sites bought, built and repaired.20
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.10
Land bought and soldLand changing hands with the city on one side of it.6
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.4
ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.4

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2020s4
    Narrower sidewalks on Folsom Street and Clementina Street finally passed · 2026
  2. 2000s5
    Proposal to spend $4.3M on seismic upgrades at San Francisco General Hospital (outcome not in the record) · 2008
  3. 1990s4
    $133,040 approved for emergency sewer work on 4th Street · 1999
  4. 1980s7
    Up to $40M in housing bonds refinanced for St. Francis Place · 1989
  5. 1970s1
    Hills Bros. Coffee's spur track on Steuart Street to be revoked · 1977
  6. 1960s5
    Proposed: backing low-rent housing on the blocks between Harrison and Folsom Streets · 1969
  7. 1950s3
    Proposed, approved later: $155,163.74 for a firehouse at Nineteenth and Folsom Streets · 1953
  8. 1940s1
    Proposed: $6,500 for more land at Nineteenth and Folsom for a firehouse · 1949
  9. 1930s10
    Proposed: purchase of land to open Shipley Street between Fourth and Fifth streets · 1930
  10. 1920s23
    McDonald & Kahn to build Mission High School for $807,340 · 1925
  11. 1910s43
    Payment of $2,150 to Jacob Przyborowski for school land on Folsom Street approved · 1915
  12. 1900s14
    Money set aside to repave Folsom, Davis and Tehama Streets · 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

4th StSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on record5th StSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordHarrison StSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordClara StSame block of the map, 35 decisions on record

Overview

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