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Sansome St

120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Sansome St, between 1906 and 2006, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1900s; often about railroads and spur tracks, oil tanks and boilers, paving and grading.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Sansome St, between 1906 and 2006
Most of them in the 1900s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.18
Oil tanks and boilersFuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.13
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.11
Blasting permitsPermission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.9
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.7
ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.5

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2000s1
    Proposal to sell Broadway and Sansome land for $1.5M (outcome not in the record) · 2006
  2. 1980s4
    Proposed, approved later: Commercial Street to be closed to cars for a pedestrian mall · 1987
  3. 1970s6
    Land on Washington Street to be taken for widening · 1972
  4. 1960s5
    Proposed: improving Gloria Court north of Geneva Avenue with $3,200 · 1969
  5. 1950s3
    Failed: proposal to allow less parking for property on Greenwich Street near Sansome · 1957
  6. 1940s5
    Merchants Ice and Cold Storage allowed a track on Greenwich Street · 1946
  7. 1930s4
    The $9,500 set aside to rebuild Broadway is taken back · 1931
  8. 1920s13
    Proposal to rebuild Market Street from The Embarcadero to Sansome Street (outcome not in the record) · 1922
  9. 1910s32
    Proposal to order Washington Irving School built on Broadway west of Sansome Street (outcome not in the record) · 1913
  10. 1900s47
    Fire house approved on Pacific Street for $23,000 · 1908

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 recordMontgomery 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

The city, drawn from its own recordEvery block, and what the Board of Supervisors decided there