Street
Merchant St
54 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Merchant St, between 1907 and 2020, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about taxis and garages, land bought and sold, oil tanks and boilers.
What keeps coming up
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2020s1Proposal to back a licence for San Francisco Wine Society at 408 Merchant Street (outcome not in the record) · 2020
- 2010s5Merchant Street to be named Harold 'Bud' Moose Lane · 2013
- 2000s1Proposed: adding Harold 'Bud' Moose Lane to Merchant Street · 2008
- 1980s1Transamerica may close Merchant Street with a chain and plaza · 1980
- 1970s5Transamerica allowed a chain and planters across Merchant Street · 1975
- 1960s6Buildings on Kearny and Merchant Streets may now stand closer · 1965
- 1950s2Merchant Street sidewalk cut to three feet near The Embarcadero · 1953
- 1940s1Proposed: post-war plans for streets through the cemeteries · 1944
- 1930s7Proposal to spend $1,080 on a steel and glass pergola at the City Morgue (outcome not in the record) · 1930
- 1920s6Vogt & Davidson to rebuild the women's jail on Dunbar Alley · 1929
- 1910s10Mysell Rollins Bank Note Company allowed a garage on Clay Street · 1915
- 1900s9Proposal to take land for the county jail and a children's playground (outcome not in the record) · 1908
The most notable decisions
Proposal to take land for the county jail and a children's playground (outcome not in the record)
Resolution · 1908 ↗20 July 1908Proposed: Schmeidell Estate selling land for the county jail and playground
Resolution · proposed · 1908 ↗15 June 1908Proposed: City to accept Jesse G. Gobey's offer of Merchant Street jail land
Resolution · proposed · 1908 ↗13 January 1908Vogt & Davidson to rebuild the women's jail on Dunbar Alley
Resolution · 1929 ↗19 August 1929Proposed, approved later: Vogt & Davidson to rebuild the women's jail on Dunbar Alley
Resolution · passed · 1929 ↗12 August 1929
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Buildings on Kearny and Merchant Streets may now stand closer
Ordinance · 1965 ↗11 October 1965Proposal to spend $1,080 on a steel and glass pergola at the City Morgue (outcome not in the record)
Resolution · 1930 ↗3 November 1930California Pacific Title paid for a share at Clay and Embarcadero
Resolution · 1930 ↗9 June 1930Proposed: payment to California Pacific Title for a share at Clay and Embarcadero
Resolution · proposed · 1930 ↗26 May 1930$55,000 to buy land by The Embarcadero between Clay and Merchant
Resolution · 1930 ↗3 March 1930
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