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120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Grant Ave, between 1907 and 2019, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about the rules for this street changed, oil tanks and boilers, paving and grading.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Grant Ave, between 1907 and 2019
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What keeps coming up

The rules for this street changedRezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.14
Oil tanks and boilersFuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.7
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.7
Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.5
Blasting permitsPermission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.3
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.3

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2010s2
    Proposal to grant a beer and wine licence for the Museum of Ice Cream (outcome not in the record) · 2019
  2. 2000s5
    Grant Avenue flower stand permit sale finally passed · 2006
  3. 1990s2
    Proposed: settling a claim for $18,168 · 1995
  4. 1980s27
    Height and bulk limits to change near the Chinese Playground · 1984
  5. 1970s2
    Rothschild & Raffin may occupy Grant Avenue during Embarcadero Triangle construction · 1972
  6. 1960s3
    South of Market study area held for the Assessor's report · 1963
  7. 1950s2
    Whiting Street east of Grant Avenue to be improved · 1953
  8. 1940s10
    Proposed, approved later: buildings between Grant Avenue and the Embarcadero to be limited to sixty feet; sent to committee; later finally passed · 1945
  9. 1930s21
    Proposed, approved later: buildings capped at 290 feet between Greenwich and Union streets · 1932
  10. 1920s16
    Proposed: $1,709.55 for beacon posts on the Market Street safety islands · 1929
  11. 1910s12
    California Special Messenger Company told to take down its overhead wires · 1914
  12. 1900s18
    Payment of $2,724.24 to Barber Asphalt Paving Co. for Market Street repairs approved · 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

Bush StSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordKearny StSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordPine StSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordGough St120+ decisions on record, next to it in the ranking

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