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120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Greenwich St, between 1907 and 2016, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about paving and grading, railroads and spur tracks, schools.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Greenwich St, between 1907 and 2016
Most of them in the 1910s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.10
Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.9
SchoolsSchool sites bought, built and repaired.6
Clinics and hospitalsClinics, health centres and hospitals.6
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.5
ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.5

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2010s4
    Proposed: Greenwich Street strip by Coit Tower joining Pioneer Park · 2016
  2. 1990s1
    Parking banned on Culebra Terrace and stretches of Chestnut and Greenwich · 1990
  3. 1980s9
    Proposed: housing conversion freeze between Greenwich and Bush · 1985
  4. 1960s3
    Greenwich Street to be improved with about $24,000 in city aid · 1966
  5. 1950s4
    Proposal by Supervisor Arnold for $237,113.19 for Joint Highway District No. 10 (outcome not in the record) · 1955
  6. 1940s9
    Proposed: buildings to be capped at eighty-four feet near the northern waterfront · 1946
  7. 1930s14
    Proposed, approved later: buildings capped at 290 feet between Greenwich and Union streets · 1932
  8. 1920s24
    Payment of $4,100 to Fannie R. Frisbie for Garfield School land on Greenwich approved · 1921
  9. 1910s34
    Greenwich Street lot bought for $4,500 for the Cooper School · 1914
  10. 1900s18
    McEwen Bros. land bought for $17,000 for the Yerba Buena School · 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

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Overview

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