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120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Post St, between 1906 and 2025, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about oil tanks and boilers, parking, hotels and rooming houses.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Post St, between 1906 and 2025

What keeps coming up

Oil tanks and boilersFuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.18
ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.7
Hotels and rooming housesHotels and rooming houses, concentrated in a handful of neighbourhoods.6
LaundriesLaundries needed the Board's permission, and their neighbours sometimes objected.5
Taxis and garagesTaxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.5
Fire stationsEngine houses and fire stations.5

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2020s6
    Proposal to buy 888 Post Street for $29M as supportive housing (outcome not in the record) · 2021
  2. 2010s1
    Proposed: making 888 Post Street a homeless center · 2019
  3. 2000s10
    Proposal to accept a $1M federal grant for Broadway corridor street improvements (outcome not in the record) · 2000
  4. 1990s2
    Proposed: emergency repairs at the Harry W. Tracy water plant · 1995
  5. 1970s4
    Proposed: a hearing on the city taking over a convalescent home · 1978
  6. 1960s4
    Bond money allotted to rebuild fire houses and headquarters · 1965
  7. 1950s3
    $35,000 voted for books at the North Beach Branch Library · 1958
  8. 1940s21
    $28,000 set aside to widen Post Street and Presidio Avenue · 1940
  9. 1930s4
    Nine Counties highway committee to carry road recommendations to the Governor · 1931
  10. 1920s14
    Post Street east of Gough Street opened to light industry · 1926
  11. 1910s26
    Failed: proposal to require the Board's permission for washing cars at parking stations · 1915
  12. 1900s25
    P. A. Smith Realty land bought for a fire engine house · 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