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120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Howard St, between 1906 and 2022, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1930s; often about sewers, clinics and hospitals, railroads and spur tracks.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Howard St, between 1906 and 2022
Most of them in the 1930s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.17
Clinics and hospitalsClinics, health centres and hospitals.12
Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.8
Streetcars and transitStreetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.7
PG&E and the utilitiesThe gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.7
SchoolsSchool sites bought, built and repaired.6

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2020s3
    Proposal to take over new streets built by the 5M project (outcome not in the record) · 2022
  2. 2010s9
    $4.6M for sixteen affordable flats at 1500 Page Street approved · 2014
  3. 2000s3
    Proposal for the Redevelopment Agency to refinance Moscone Convention Center bonds (outcome not in the record) · 2002
  4. 1990s4
    Proposed, approved later: WEBCOR Builders to repair Fire Station No. 1 on Howard Street · 1999
  5. 1980s1
    Jim Dine's Howard Street Venus statue given by Convention Plaza · 1989
  6. 1970s2
    Proposal to set aside $2.7M to move the Howard Street sewer (outcome not in the record) · 1972
  7. 1940s9
    $34,345 shifted to staff public health clinics · 1941
  8. 1930s34
    Failed: proposal to fund a trolley bus line from Beale to Army Street for $228,000 · 1939
  9. 1920s16
    Payment of $47,805.47 to A. Guthrie & Co. for Hetch Hetchy aqueduct tunnels approved · 1927
  10. 1910s15
    Proposal to set aside $265,000 to build and equip three new schools (outcome not in the record) · 1910
  11. 1900s24
    C. S. Harney paid for basalt blocks for Howard Street repairs · 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

South Van Ness AveSame block of the map, 105 decisions on record12th StSame block of the map, 77 decisions on record13th StSame block of the map, 40 decisions on recordHarrison 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