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105 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Front St, between 1907 and 2017, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about railroads and spur tracks, parking, paving and grading.

105
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Front St, between 1907 and 2017
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 1930.20
ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.13
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.6
Environmental reviewNothing before the 1970s, then permanent: the review law arriving and staying.6
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.3

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2010s2
    Proposed: rewritten night construction noise rules · 2017
  2. 2000s10
    Chinatown Community Development Center to build affordable housing on Broadway · 2003
  3. 1990s1
    Weekday tow-away zones set on Front and Howard Streets · 1990
  4. 1980s7
    Embarcadero Center owners to help pay for three midblock crossings · 1985
  5. 1970s4
    Crosswalk on Clay Street at Front Street to go · 1973
  6. 1960s6
    Proposal to replace the sewer under Front Street with a concrete one (outcome not in the record) · 1969
  7. 1950s1
    Grove Street to be closed and covered by canvas in 1954 · 1953
  8. 1940s2
    Market Street Railway allowed buses from Fremont Street to Battery Street · 1940
  9. 1930s9
    Front Street west sidewalk set between Union Street and The Embarcadero · 1936
  10. 1920s20
    Sidewalks on Washington Street set at ten feet, owners pay · 1925
  11. 1910s27
    S. Nathan leases city land on Jackson Street · 1913
  12. 1900s16
    Money set aside to pave Pine Street and Bryant Street · 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

See also

Streets near it on the record

King St104 decisions on record, next to it in the ranking21st Ave103 decisions on record, next to it in the rankingHolloway Ave103 decisions on record, next to it in the ranking8th Ave102 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