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120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Jones St, between 1907 and 2004, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about paving and grading, oil tanks and boilers, railroads and spur tracks.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Jones St, between 1907 and 2004
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.12
Oil tanks and boilersFuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.11
Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.10
PG&E and the utilitiesThe gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.9
Taxis and garagesTaxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.8
SchoolsSchool sites bought, built and repaired.8

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2000s4
    Proposed, approved later: Bus and taxi lanes proposed on O'Farrell and Geary Streets · 2004
  2. 1990s2
    Proposed, approved later: Cutting noncitizens from federal benefit programs is opposed · 1994
  3. 1980s1
    $695,000 paid for open space near Eddy and Jones Streets · 1980
  4. 1970s1
    Proposal to seek federal money to rebuild Broadway between Leavenworth and Jones (outcome not in the record) · 1978
  5. 1960s8
    Failed: proposal to change zoning on Vallejo and Florence Streets · 1962
  6. 1950s1
    Proposed: a height limit petition near Taylor and Green Streets · 1952
  7. 1940s6
    A. Parente buys land at Jefferson and Jones for $82,000 · 1946
  8. 1930s3
    Land at Jones and Houston Streets to be taken for widening · 1935
  9. 1920s33
    Payment of $107,500 to Sanford Sachs for land at the Civic Center approved · 1924
  10. 1910s43
    City sets aside $2,500 for plague suppression work · 1915
  11. 1900s18
    Payment of $7,012.50 to Lester Perry for gate house land on Jones Street approved · 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

Ofarrell StSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordJessie St120+ decisions on record, next to it in the rankingJunipero Serra Ave120+ decisions on record, next to it in the rankingJefferson 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