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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.

54
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Merchant St, between 1907 and 2020
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What keeps coming up

Taxis and garagesTaxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.3
Land bought and soldLand changing hands with the city on one side of it.3
Oil tanks and boilersFuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.2
Streetcars and transitStreetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.2
Parks and playgroundsPlaygrounds and recreation grounds.2

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2020s1
    Proposal to back a licence for San Francisco Wine Society at 408 Merchant Street (outcome not in the record) · 2020
  2. 2010s5
    Merchant Street to be named Harold 'Bud' Moose Lane · 2013
  3. 2000s1
    Proposed: adding Harold 'Bud' Moose Lane to Merchant Street · 2008
  4. 1980s1
    Transamerica may close Merchant Street with a chain and plaza · 1980
  5. 1970s5
    Transamerica allowed a chain and planters across Merchant Street · 1975
  6. 1960s6
    Buildings on Kearny and Merchant Streets may now stand closer · 1965
  7. 1950s2
    Merchant Street sidewalk cut to three feet near The Embarcadero · 1953
  8. 1940s1
    Proposed: post-war plans for streets through the cemeteries · 1944
  9. 1930s7
    Proposal to spend $1,080 on a steel and glass pergola at the City Morgue (outcome not in the record) · 1930
  10. 1920s6
    Vogt & Davidson to rebuild the women's jail on Dunbar Alley · 1929
  11. 1910s10
    Mysell Rollins Bank Note Company allowed a garage on Clay Street · 1915
  12. 1900s9
    Proposal to take land for the county jail and a children's playground (outcome not in the record) · 1908

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

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