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89 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Spear St, between 1907 and 2016, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about railroads and spur tracks, parking, environmental review.

89
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Spear St, between 1907 and 2016
Most of them in the 1910s · 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 1930.20
ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.9
Environmental reviewNothing before the 1970s, then permanent: the review law arriving and staying.4
Oil tanks and boilersFuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.3
Streetcars and transitStreetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.3
Streets closed for a dayParades, street fairs, block parties, ground-breakings, festivals.3

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2010s7
    Proposed: moving liquor licence to Cask at Rincon, 101 Spear Street · 2013
  2. 2000s11
    Proposed: sidewalk width changes on Market, Main and Spear Streets · 2006
  3. 1990s4
    Sidewalk width changed on Spear Street between Mission and Market · 1994
  4. 1980s7
    Koll Construction allowed to occupy Steuart or Spear Street while building · 1989
  5. 1970s3
    Special permission refused for 43 Main Street and 38-68 Spear Street · 1977
  6. 1960s3
    Sidewalk and roadway at Spear and Mission Streets, adopted · 1966
  7. 1950s2
    Proposed: Market Street Railway paying the city $383.02 to settle a claim · 1950
  8. 1930s1
    Jim Hunnicutt allowed a parking station on Spear Street · 1930
  9. 1920s9
    $400 set aside for a signal tower at Market and Spear · 1920
  10. 1910s30
    Proposal to fund $5,000 for a Market Street track crossover near Spear Street (outcome not in the record) · 1918
  11. 1900s12
    Proposal to set spur track rules for freight cars and connecting railways (outcome not in the record) · 1907

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

Main StSame block of the map, 89 decisions on recordPacific88 decisions on record, next to it in the rankingCarroll Ave87 decisions on record, next to it in the rankingClarendon Ave87 decisions on record, next to it in the ranking

Overview

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