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120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Union, between 1908 and 2025, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 2000s; often about parking, police stations, environmental review.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Union, between 1908 and 2025
Most of them in the 2000s

What keeps coming up

ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.24
Police stationsPolice stations and the sites bought for them.8
Environmental reviewNothing before the 1970s, then permanent: the review law arriving and staying.6
Theatres and showsTheatres, cinemas and travelling shows.5
Clinics and hospitalsClinics, health centres and hospitals.4
Hotels and rooming housesHotels and rooming houses, concentrated in a handful of neighbourhoods.4

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2020s9
    Proposed, approved later: $3.0M shifted from free downtown parking to neighborhood arts events · 2024
  2. 2010s2
    Proposed: Union Square garage and cafe lease · 2016
  3. 2000s54
    Proposed: Emporium developer paying $16M toward affordable housing over thirty years · 2000
  4. 1990s22
    Proposed, approved later: Caltrans urged to put passenger rail on a rebuilt Bay Bridge · 1998
  5. 1980s6
    $50,000 moved from Balboa Stadium lights to Union Square ventilation · 1982
  6. 1960s2
    Failed: proposal to set height limits at Jackson Square, Civic Center and Union Square · 1964
  7. 1950s2
    Proposed: bigger allowances for police officers · 1955
  8. 1940s14
    Proposal to accept Union Square Garage stock and put it in trust (outcome not in the record) · 1944
  9. 1930s4
    Proposed: Chief of Police setting taxi stands, none around Union Square · 1937
  10. 1920s2
    Haas Bros. and Wm. Cluff win the city's canned fruit contracts · 1923
  11. 1900s3
    Board of Public Works to report on a Union Place building · 1909

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