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120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Franklin St, between 1907 and 1995, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about schools, land bought and sold, taxis and garages.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Franklin St, between 1907 and 1995
Most of them in the 1920s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

SchoolsSchool sites bought, built and repaired.18
Land bought and soldLand changing hands with the city on one side of it.10
Taxis and garagesTaxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.8
LibrariesBranch libraries — several of them shops the city rented one year at a time.7
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.6
War and the militaryThe military in the city, and what the wars did to it.6

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1990s1
    Proposed: $100,000 emergency repair for the Owens Street force main · 1995
  2. 1980s2
    Redwood Street stretch to be closed and sold for $865,375 · 1983
  3. 1970s4
    Proposed: rule change so the Board elects its own president · 1979
  4. 1960s1
    Map approved to widen Geary Boulevard between Broderick and Franklin · 1961
  5. 1950s4
    Proposal for the first contract to widen Geary Street between Franklin and Masonic (outcome not in the record) · 1959
  6. 1940s3
    Proposed: leasing city land at Lombard and Franklin Streets · 1947
  7. 1930s10
    $1,061.84 for a traffic signal at Market and Franklin Streets · 1935
  8. 1920s47
    Bartholomew Cademartori sells school land at Franklin and Green for $27,500 · 1925
  9. 1910s22
    Proposed: $4,000 to buy Green Street land for the Sherman School · 1916
  10. 1900s26
    Payment of $5,382 to Terrill Bros for the library building on Hayes Street approved · 1907

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

Gough StSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordIvy StSame block of the map, 10 decisions on recordFolsom St120+ decisions on record, next to it in the rankingFulton St120+ 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