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120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Jackson St, between 1908 and 2019, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about parking, railroads and spur tracks, sewers.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Jackson St, between 1908 and 2019
Most of them in the 1920s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.11
Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.8
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.8
Taxis and garagesTaxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.7
Keeping horses and cowsUntil about 1930 the Board voted on whether you could keep animals at your address.6
LaundriesLaundries needed the Board's permission, and their neighbours sometimes objected.6

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2010s3
    Proposed: a planning report on the One Maritime Plaza nightlife freeze · 2019
  2. 2000s5
    Turn bans set along Stockton Street and Harrison Street · 2001
  3. 1990s2
    City orders emergency repairs to the sewer on Gough Street · 1991
  4. 1970s6
    Jackson Street to be widened between Front and Drumm Streets · 1977
  5. 1960s7
    Evening rule adopted between Pine, California, Washington and Jackson Streets · 1960
  6. 1950s5
    Turn rules adopted where Van Ness Avenue meets many streets · 1952
  7. 1940s5
    Proposed, approved later: Market Street Railway asks to run buses on Castro and Fillmore · 1940
  8. 1930s9
    Proposed: barring warehouses and airplane landings north of Jackson Street · 1930
  9. 1920s43
    Proposed, approved later: C. L. Wold to build Pacific Heights School on Jackson Street · 1922
  10. 1910s26
    Proposed: sixty days' notice for ending the railway agreement · 1912
  11. 1900s9
    Edward P. McGeeney's land bought for $9,100 for Spring Valley 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