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Fremont St

61 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Fremont St, between 1906 and 2004, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about railroads and spur tracks, parking, oil tanks and boilers.

61
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Fremont St, between 1906 and 2004

What keeps coming up

Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.8
ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.8
Oil tanks and boilersFuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.5
Streetcars and transitStreetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.5
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.3
Streets closed for goodStreets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.3

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2000s1
    Parking changes on Howard, Taylor and Masonic, including Trader Joe's frontage · 2004
  2. 1990s2
    Transit lane and tow-away zones adopted on Fremont and Army Streets · 1990
  3. 1980s6
    Tow-away zone on Judah Street and new turns on Folsom Street · 1985
  4. 1970s2
  5. 1960s2
    Block between Market and Fremont Streets rezoned for downtown business · 1965
  6. 1950s7
    Proposed: extra welfare payments as the Public Welfare Department asked · 1952
  7. 1940s6
    Market Street Railway allowed buses from Fremont Street to Battery Street · 1940
  8. 1930s7
    Failed: proposal to spend $75,000 on terminal tracks, with Market Street Railway paying rent · 1938
  9. 1920s4
    Proposal to list lengths for Stanford Hospital and firms on Clay Street (outcome not in the record) · 1928
  10. 1910s14
    80,000 circulars on charter amendments to be printed for voters · 1910
  11. 1900s10
    Proposal to set aside $60,000 for repaving Clay, Fremont and Third streets (outcome not in the record) · 1908

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