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120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Washington St, between 1906 and 2023, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about parking, schools, taxis and garages.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Washington St, between 1906 and 2023
Most of them in the 1920s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.8
SchoolsSchool sites bought, built and repaired.8
Taxis and garagesTaxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.6
Streetcars and transitStreetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.6
Clinics and hospitalsClinics, health centres and hospitals.6
Blasting permitsPermission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.4

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2020s1
    Proposal to change limits on flats per building east of Columbus Avenue (outcome not in the record) · 2023
  2. 2010s2
    Seawall Lot 351 to be traded to San Francisco Waterfront Partners · 2012
  3. 2000s2
    Proposed: Nextel renting antenna space at San Francisco General Hospital Garage · 2000
  4. 1990s10
    City orders emergency repairs to the sewer on Gough Street · 1991
  5. 1980s6
    Proposed, approved later: Chinatown rezoned with new height limits and neighborhood business districts · 1987
  6. 1970s7
    Proposed, approved later: Jackson Square historic district between Kearny and Sansome Streets proposed; introduced only · 1972
  7. 1960s9
    Ferry Park to be enlarged and Washington Street widened · 1964
  8. 1950s2
    Turn rules adopted where Van Ness Avenue meets many streets · 1952
  9. 1940s3
    Proposed: $20,000 to Coast Bay Company for Lafayette Park land · 1940
  10. 1930s5
    American Box and Drum wins a twenty-year lease in Colma · 1931
  11. 1920s39
    Proposal to pay Hee Suey Law Jessie for Washington Street school land (outcome not in the record) · 1927
  12. 1910s21
    George A. Webster sells land for the Oriental School site · 1912
  13. 1900s13
    Proposed: City Attorney seeking land at Clay and Gough for Lowell High · 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

Streets near it on the record

Jackson StSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordMontgomery StSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordSansome StSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordHotaling PlSame block of the map, 4 decisions on record

Overview

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