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120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Jefferson St, between 1906 and 2026, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about pg&e and the utilities, railroads and spur tracks, buildings the city rents.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Jefferson St, between 1906 and 2026
Most of them in the 1910s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

PG&E and the utilitiesThe gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.16
Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.10
Buildings the city rentsSpace the city leases from private owners, with the rent on the record.8
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.5
ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.4
SchoolsSchool sites bought, built and repaired.4

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2020s3
    Proposal to give Dylan's Tours 490 Jefferson Street space at $72,000 a year (outcome not in the record) · 2026
  2. 2010s13
    Proposed, approved later: Board to back a citywide health information exchange · 2011
  3. 2000s2
    Proposed, approved later: $30,000 study of a Jefferson Street redesign · 2008
  4. 1990s6
    H&N Fish Company to get a ten-year lease at Pier 45 · 1995
  5. 1980s3
    Jefferson Street to close, with fire access to the Wharf kept · 1987
  6. 1970s2
    A. Sabella's Restaurant given a crab stand on Taylor Street · 1977
  7. 1960s1
    Streets closed for a carnival, street fairs and a Philippine celebration · 1969
  8. 1940s8
    Failed: proposal to lease out city land on Jefferson Street near Taylor · 1946
  9. 1930s12
    Land bought from California Packing Corporation for Aquatic Park, $23,581.36 · 1939
  10. 1920s27
    Payment of $11,625 to Albert R. Herman for Palace of Fine Arts land approved · 1927
  11. 1910s35
    Payment of $38,000 to James Otis for land taken for the aquatic park approved · 1919
  12. 1900s8
    Sewers ordered on Lombard Street from Octavia to Laguna for $55,000 · 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

Marina BlvdSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordJackson St120+ decisions on record, next to it in the rankingJessie St120+ decisions on record, next to it in the rankingIrving 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