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120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Townsend St, between 1906 and 2019, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about railroads and spur tracks, streetcars and transit, paving and grading.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Townsend St, between 1906 and 2019
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 1930.29
Streetcars and transitStreetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.7
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.7
ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.7
Clinics and hospitalsClinics, health centres and hospitals.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. 2010s14
    Proposed: freeze on replacing South of Market workshops, as backed by a planning report · 2016
  2. 2000s12
    Western SoMa special use district passed, ten votes to one · 2006
  3. 1990s6
    Building height limits reset across Mission Bay · 1991
  4. 1980s13
    $50M in bonds for 414 flats on Townsend Street · 1985
  5. 1970s1
    State grant sought to design an Embarcadero surface rail line · 1978
  6. 1950s2
    Proposed: Hearings on assessment cuts put off to July 10 · 1950
  7. 1940s1
    Gale Street between Townsend and King proposed for closing · 1945
  8. 1930s3
    Proposed: thirty-day trial for the bus route past the railway station · 1939
  9. 1920s8
    City buses ordered along The Embarcadero to the Golden Gate Ferry · 1925
  10. 1910s43
    Proposed: capping baggage charges at 75 cents a trunk from the depot · 1918
  11. 1900s17
    Proposed: to let United Railroads keep its Market Street trolley running · 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

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Overview

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