Street
Jackson
17 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Jackson, between 1915 and 2025, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 2020s; often about the rules for this street changed, environmental review, parks and playgrounds.
What keeps coming up
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2020s7Proposal to ease North Beach and Polk Street zoning to allow more shops (outcome not in the record) · 2025
- 2000s1Proposed: tighter rules on ground-floor uses in Jackson Square · 2006
- 1970s2Proposed, approved later: Jackson Square historic district between Kearny and Sansome Streets proposed; introduced only · 1972
- 1960s5Failed: proposal to set height limits at Jackson Square, Civic Center and Union Square · 1964
- 1950s1Jackson Street closed for the Jackson Square Day celebration · 1958
- 1910s1Proposed: payment of $1,455 to Chas. Wright for plumbing at the Oriental School · 1915
The most notable decisions
Proposal to ease North Beach and Polk Street zoning to allow more shops (outcome not in the record)
Ordinance · 2025 ↗4 November 2025Proposed, approved later: Jackson Square historic district between Kearny and Sansome Streets proposed; introduced only
Ordinance · passed · 1972 ↗17 July 1972$24,990 for the Chinese Playground and $39,423 for Franklin Square
Resolution · 1971 ↗18 October 1971Failed: proposal to set height limits at Jackson Square, Civic Center and Union Square
Ordinance · 1964 ↗10 August 1964Proposed: payment of $1,455 to Chas. Wright for plumbing at the Oriental School
Resolution · proposed · 1915 ↗16 August 1915
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Proposed, approved later: North Beach and Polk Street zoning changes put off
Ordinance · passed · 2025 ↗28 October 2025Proposed: Union Square height limits
Ordinance · proposed · 1964 ↗19 October 1964Proposed: height limits for Jackson Square and Union Square
Ordinance · proposed · 1964 ↗13 October 1964Proposed: tighter rules on ground-floor uses in Jackson Square
Ordinance · proposed · 2006 ↗14 March 2006Proposed: looser shop rules for North Beach and Polk Street
Ordinance · proposed · 2025 ↗30 September 2025
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