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120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Stanyan St, between 1906 and 2023, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about streetcars and transit, parking, clinics and hospitals.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Stanyan St, between 1906 and 2023
Most of them in the 1920s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

Streetcars and transitStreetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.9
ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.9
Clinics and hospitalsClinics, health centres and hospitals.9
PG&E and the utilitiesThe gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.8
Land bought and soldLand changing hands with the city on one side of it.7
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.6

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2020s6
    Proposal to lease City land at 730 Stanyan Street for 160 affordable homes (outcome not in the record) · 2023
  2. 2010s2
    Proposal to buy McDonald's site at 700 Stanyan Street for $15.5M housing (outcome not in the record) · 2018
  3. 2000s7
    Proposed: raising the PGA Tour's guaranteed fee to the city to $500,000 · 2004
  4. 1990s1
    Proposed, approved later: International Terminal shop lease with Calstar Retail · 1999
  5. 1980s7
    Proposal to impose temporary building rules across the Richmond and Sunset districts (outcome not in the record) · 1988
  6. 1970s9
    $400,000 set aside for parking in a neighborhood shopping district · 1971
  7. 1960s8
    Failed: proposal for the Waller Street rezoning, on appeal by William Porter · 1962
  8. 1950s6
    Proposed, approved later: Walter Johnson offers $2M to rebuild the Palace of Fine Arts · 1959
  9. 1940s2
    $9,500 voted for an asphalt coat on Clarendon Avenue Extension · 1945
  10. 1930s14
    Payment of $286 to Georgine and Ernest Leiss to widen Clarendon Avenue approved · 1931
  11. 1920s36
    Municipal Railway to be extended along Masonic Avenue to Stanyan Street · 1923
  12. 1910s12
    Whitney Engineering to supply a $24,100 locomotive for Hetch Hetchy · 1918
  13. 1900s10
    Clarendon Heights lots bought for $1,125 for a water pipe line · 1909

The most notable decisions

  • Proposal to impose temporary building rules across the Richmond and Sunset districts (outcome not in the record)

    Resolution · 1988 ↗
    4 January 1988
  • Municipal Railway to be extended along Masonic Avenue to Stanyan Street

    Ordinance · 1923 ↗
    7 May 1923
  • Proposal to lease City land at 730 Stanyan Street for 160 affordable homes (outcome not in the record)

    Resolution · 2023 ↗
    23 May 2023
  • Proposed, approved later: City land at 730 Stanyan Street leased for 160 affordable homes

    Resolution · passed · 2023 ↗
    2 May 2023
  • Proposal to buy McDonald's site at 700 Stanyan Street for $15.5M housing (outcome not in the record)

    Resolution · 2018 ↗
    23 January 2018
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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