Street
Sutter St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Sutter St, between 1906 and 2016, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1900s; often about railroads and spur tracks, paving and grading, oil tanks and boilers.
What keeps coming up
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2010s5Proposed, approved later: $47.5M note for 135 flats at Westside Courts on Sutter Street · 2016
- 1980s6Bush and Scott Street property rezoned for small neighborhood shops · 1988
- 1970s6Buchanan and Sutter Streets rezoned for a three-story building with shops · 1977
- 1960s4$39,200 more to buy land for the Interior Green Belt · 1960
- 1950s6Proposed, approved later: lease of 2201 Sutter Street for the health center proposed to be undone · 1955
- 1940s8Proposed: election of fifteen freeholders to rewrite the charter · 1943
- 1930s3Proposal for Sutter Street Railroad Company to surrender its franchises to the city (outcome not in the record) · 1931
- 1920s10Market Street Railway allowed to give up part of its franchise · 1929
- 1910s22Proposal to build tracks on Market Street from Sutter Street to Geary Street (outcome not in the record) · 1912
- 1900s50Proposal for Sutter Street Railroad to run overhead trolleys on lower Market Street (outcome not in the record) · 1908
The most notable decisions
Proposal to build tracks on Market Street from Sutter Street to Geary Street (outcome not in the record)
Departmental work · 1912 ↗1912Proposal for Sutter Street Railroad to run overhead trolleys on lower Market Street (outcome not in the record)
Ordinance · 1908 ↗26 October 1908Proposal for Sutter Street Railroad Company to surrender its franchises to the city (outcome not in the record)
Resolution · 1931 ↗9 February 1931Arabella D. Huntington gives land for a park at Taylor Street
Ordinance · 1915 ↗15 March 1915$39,200 more to buy land for the Interior Green Belt
Ordinance · 1960 ↗11 July 1960
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Proposed, approved later: $47.5M note for 135 flats at Westside Courts on Sutter Street
Resolution · passed · 2016 ↗26 July 2016Proposed: having United Railroads run Sutter Street cars to the city front
Ordinance · proposed · 1910 ↗28 March 1910Proposed: Sutter Street Railway running trolley cars on Market Street
Ordinance · proposed · 1908 ↗19 October 1908Proposed, approved later: lease of 2201 Sutter Street for the health center proposed to be undone
Motion · passed · 1955 ↗4 April 1955Proposed: election of fifteen freeholders to rewrite the charter
Resolution · proposed · 1943 ↗1 February 1943
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