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Montgomery St

120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Montgomery St, between 1906 and 2011, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about the rules for this street changed, blasting permits, streets closed for good.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Montgomery St, between 1906 and 2011
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What keeps coming up

The rules for this street changedRezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.21
Blasting permitsPermission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.13
Streets closed for goodStreets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.7
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.6
Oil tanks and boilersFuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.5
Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.5

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2010s1
    Proposal to write findings rejecting the 1621 Montgomery Street parcel map (outcome not in the record) · 2011
  2. 2000s1
    Proposed: requests on claims costs, parking meters and the Belli Building · 2000
  3. 1990s2
    Proposed: support for more Caltrain service · 1991
  4. 1980s5
    Failed: proposal to set Chinatown limits on new banks and lost homes · 1984
  5. 1970s12
    Proposal to set Montgomery Street sidewalks at twelve feet near Chestnut Street (outcome not in the record) · 1974
  6. 1960s6
    Center-column mezzanines at Powell and Montgomery stations to be rejected · 1966
  7. 1950s18
    Proposed: Supervisor Lewis asks that the Shoppers' Special serve the financial district · 1953
  8. 1940s2
    Nursery school society buys Union Street school land for $40,000 · 1948
  9. 1930s9
    $2.4M listed for structural improvements including the Bernal Cut · 1931
  10. 1920s19
    Proposed: to ban dumping oil and grease on streets or into sewers · 1929
  11. 1910s16
    Proposed: accepting Sharon Estate Company's temporary City Hall at $5,000 a month · 1910
  12. 1900s29
    Payment of $3,677.85 to Henning & Burke for the temporary Lafayette School 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

Jackson StSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordSansome StSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordWashington StSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordHotaling PlSame block of the map, 4 decisions on record

Overview

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