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120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Union St, between 1906 and 2018, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about streetcars and transit, the rules for this street changed, permission to open something.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Union St, between 1906 and 2018
Most of them in the 1910s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

Streetcars and transitStreetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.18
The rules for this street changedRezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.17
Permission to open somethingA shop, a clinic, a wrecking yard, a dispensary: uses that needed asking for.15
Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.12
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.8
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.8

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2010s7
    Proposed, approved later: Smoking ban at outdoor city events · 2012
  2. 2000s6
    $885,127 passed for the summer food and after-school snack programs · 2009
  3. 1990s7
    Proposed: set deadlines and a right of appeal for unsafe-building complaints · 1994
  4. 1980s19
    Failed: proposal to rezone neighborhood shopping streets across the city · 1985
  5. 1970s5
    Freeze on new Union Street bars and restaurants extended · 1979
  6. 1960s2
    Taft Ming Quan allowed brick planters at 888-898 Union Street · 1962
  7. 1950s3
    Proposal by Supervisor Arnold for $237,113.19 for Joint Highway District No. 10 (outcome not in the record) · 1955
  8. 1940s4
    Proposed: new height limits for buildings on Telegraph Hill · 1941
  9. 1930s3
    Proposed: $15,800 to rebuild Union, Lyon, Army, Sanchez and Noe streets · 1930
  10. 1920s19
    Payment of $9,250 to E. W. Burr for Sherman School land at Union approved · 1921
  11. 1910s41
    Proposal to pay $15,645 to Anderson & Ringrose for building the Argonne School (outcome not in the record) · 1919
  12. 1900s4
    Proposed: restoring the Union Street railroad, as asked by a North Beach club · 1906

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