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90 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Main St, between 1906 and 2026, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about pg&e and the utilities, parking, taxis and garages.

90
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Main St, between 1906 and 2026
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.10
ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.9
Taxis and garagesTaxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.6
The rules for this street changedRezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.6
Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.5
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. 2020s9
    Proposal to fund $50,000 for a water pipeline easement in Sunol (outcome not in the record) · 2024
  2. 2010s1
    Proposal to sell a downtown block to Tishman Speyer for affordable for-sale housing (outcome not in the record) · 2016
  3. 2000s14
    Proposed: sidewalk width changes on Market, Main and Spear Streets · 2006
  4. 1990s4
    Bus and carpool lanes set on Bryant Street near The Embarcadero · 1994
  5. 1980s1
    Pacific Gateway Associates to help pay for Mission Street pedestrian signals · 1980
  6. 1970s5
    Stop signs voted for Main, Bryant and Collingwood Streets · 1978
  7. 1960s4
    Land at Jones and North Point Streets rezoned for shops · 1964
  8. 1940s10
    Alameda County given an easement for a bridge on Bond Street · 1947
  9. 1930s4
    Permit granted for premises on Main Street south of Market Street · 1931
  10. 1920s20
    Proposed, approved later: Charles H. Brennan asks for a forty-year toll bridge to Alameda · 1925
  11. 1910s16
    Proposal to order stone sidewalks on Howard Street between Spear and Main (outcome not in the record) · 1916
  12. 1900s2
    Proposed: W. C. Talbot's mill permit, pressed for by Building Trades Council · 1906

The most notable decisions

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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

See also

Streets near it on the record

Spear StSame block of the map, 88 decisions on recordPresidio Ave91 decisions on record, next to it in the rankingBurnett Ave89 decisions on record, next to it in the rankingPacific88 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