Street
Market St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Market St, between 1907 and 2016, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about streetcars and transit, railroads and spur tracks, pg&e and the utilities.
What keeps coming up
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2010s2Proposed: $112,171 to study how HIV spreads in the city · 2015
- 2000s1Proposed, approved later: $600,000 sought for safety work on Market Street · 2007
- 1990s2Proposal to landscape the Mid-Embarcadero music concourse for $984,850 (outcome not in the record) · 1999
- 1980s1$3.0M in federal money for Market Street bicycle lanes · 1982
- 1960s1Charter change to bundle small bond projects sent to voters · 1968
- 1950s2Proposed: money for widening Market Street and Portola Drive · 1954
- 1940s5Proposed: Market Street track money · 1946
- 1930s9Failed: proposal to spend $75,000 on terminal tracks, with Market Street Railway paying rent · 1938
- 1920s53Proposed: payment of $95,715 to O. Monson for building Portola Junior High School · 1928
- 1910s37Payment of $47,668.01 to Western Contracting Co. for the Market Street railway extension approved · 1918
- 1900s7Proposed: new City Hall bond vote, again after the June defeat · 1909
The most notable decisions
Payment of $47,668.01 to Western Contracting Co. for the Market Street railway extension approved
Resolution · passed · 1918 ↗20 May 1918Proposed, approved later: payment of $47,668.01 to Western Contracting Co. for the Market Street railway extension
Resolution · passed · 1918 ↗13 May 1918$80,467.25 to Eaton & Smith for the Twin Peaks tunnel line
Resolution · 1917 ↗10 July 1917Proposed, approved later: $80,467.25 to Eaton & Smith for the Twin Peaks tunnel line
Resolution · passed · 1917 ↗2 July 1917Proposed: payment of $95,715 to O. Monson for building Portola Junior High School
Resolution · proposed · 1928 ↗23 April 1928
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Payments approved for Hetch Hetchy water work and Monroe School construction
Resolution · passed · 1919 ↗5 May 1919Payment of $2,466 to C. L. Wold Co. for the hospital's new building approved
Resolution · passed · 1915 ↗21 June 1915Charter change to bundle small bond projects sent to voters
Resolution · 1968 ↗12 August 1968Proposed, approved later: August election to be set on $3.5M bonds for new municipal streetcar lines
Ordinance · passed · 1913 ↗28 July 1913Failed: proposal to spend $75,000 on terminal tracks, with Market Street Railway paying rent
Ordinance · 1938 ↗5 July 1938
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