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120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Turk St, between 1906 and 2020, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about environmental review, parking, streetcars and transit.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Turk St, between 1906 and 2020

What keeps coming up

Environmental reviewNothing before the 1970s, then permanent: the review law arriving and staying.12
ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.10
Streetcars and transitStreetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.7
Oil tanks and boilersFuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.6
Parks and playgroundsPlaygrounds and recreation grounds.6
Housing bondsHow affordable housing is paid for, in the years since the 1980s.5

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2020s1
    Proposal to accept a $20M state award for housing at 500 Turk Street (outcome not in the record) · 2020
  2. 2010s10
    99-year lease at 1555 Turk Street keeps 52 affordable flats · 2016
  3. 2000s8
    Proposal to seek a $700,000 grant for a computer learning center on Turk Street (outcome not in the record) · 2001
  4. 1990s5
    $1.5M for the 911 project, two Turk Street projects dropped · 1994
  5. 1980s1
    Federal funds sought for signals at Franklin and Fell Streets · 1984
  6. 1970s5
    $30,000 voted to fix up the Municipal Railway's Turk Street building · 1978
  7. 1950s2
    State to repay $13,000 for lines moved for the Central Freeway · 1957
  8. 1940s16
    School site at Masonic Avenue and Turk Street bought for $86,500 · 1946
  9. 1930s15
    Payment of $12,500 to Roman Catholic Archbishop for land to widen Turk Street approved · 1932
  10. 1920s24
    Voters to decide on $4.6M in Municipal Railway extension bonds · 1927
  11. 1910s25
    Proposed: amended plans for Geary Street Railway track construction · 1912
  12. 1900s8
    Proposed: allowing Mrs. Charlotte Clark an oil tank on Turk Street · 1907

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