Street
Powell St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Powell St, between 1906 and 2026, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about blasting permits, fire stations, parking.
What keeps coming up
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2020s2$14.5M taken from a downtown group to rebuild Powell Street · 2026
- 2010s5Proposal to take a $65,000 grant to redesign Jefferson Street from Powell to Hyde (outcome not in the record) · 2011
- 2000s8Proposed: Emporium developer paying $16M toward affordable housing over thirty years · 2000
- 1990s2Left turns banned from Broadway into Powell Street at rush hour · 1991
- 1980s4Traffic signals to go in at Jefferson and Powell Streets · 1986
- 1970s3Proposal to make Powell Street between Eddy and Ellis a pedestrian mall (outcome not in the record) · 1974
- 1960s4Center-column mezzanines at Powell and Montgomery stations to be rejected · 1966
- 1950s4Failed: proposal to spend $311,500 on track work on Market, Powell, Washington and Jackson · 1951
- 1940s8$11,000 voted for street lighting around Union Square · 1942
- 1930s2$15,000 for new gutter strips along Market Street downtown · 1937
- 1920s33Proposed: $224,802 to be set aside to build the Francisco School on Powell Street · 1923
- 1910s20Proposed: a firehouse on Powell Street near Broadway · 1915
- 1900s25Proposed, approved later: payment of $66,500 to G. B. Dondero for North Beach playground land · 1908
The most notable decisions
Proposed: Emporium developer paying $16M toward affordable housing over thirty years
Ordinance · proposed · 2000 ↗23 August 2000Proposed: $224,802 to be set aside to build the Francisco School on Powell Street
Resolution · proposed · 1923 ↗30 July 1923Proposal to set aside $224,802 to build the Francisco School on Powell Street (outcome not in the record)
Resolution · 1923 ↗23 July 1923Proposal to pay Hee Suey Law Jessie for Washington Street school land (outcome not in the record)
Resolution · 1927 ↗2 January 1927Payment of $11,050 to A. Paladini's estate for Francisco School land approved
Resolution · passed · 1923 ↗24 September 1923
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North Star Brewing sells land for the Francisco School, $30,000
Resolution · 1923 ↗13 August 1923Proposed, approved later: North Star Brewing to sell land for the Francisco School, $30,000
Resolution · passed · 1923 ↗13 August 1923Proposed, approved later: payment of $66,500 to G. B. Dondero for North Beach playground land
Resolution · passed · 1908 ↗1 June 1908Annie Galloway sells the Jean Parker School land for $2,000
Resolution · 1908 ↗8 January 1908Proposed: a firehouse on Powell Street near Broadway
Ordinance · proposed · 1915 ↗10 May 1915
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