Castro/Upper Market
1,559 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Castro/Upper Market, between 1906 and 2026, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about keeping horses and cows, streetcars and transit, land bought and sold.
Open Castro/Upper Market on the map, with its record →
Its busiest streets
Market St120+ · Castro St120+ · Church St120+ · Sanchez St120+ · Roosevelt Way120+ · Caselli Ave59 · Liberty St27 · Landers St19
What keeps coming up
- Keeping horses and cows95Until about 1930 the Board voted on whether you could keep animals at your address.
- Streetcars and transit66Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- Land bought and sold39Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.
- Dance halls and masquerades26Permits for balls and dances, named by the club holding them and the hall they hired.
- Landmarks21Buildings the city decided to keep.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2020s34$11.6M purchase of 2280 Market Street finally passed · 2024
- 2010s86$21M in housing bonds sought for 462 Duboce Avenue · 2015
- 2000s47$180,047 planned to turn a 2500 Market Street gym into housing · 2000
- 1990s78Permit parking extended in Duboce Triangle to Eighteenth and Nineteenth Streets · 1990
- 1980s82Temporary zoning rules set for Castro Street between Market and Nineteenth · 1980
- 1970s58Glen Park Branch Library to rent 2838-42 Diamond Street · 1972
- 1960s37Health clinics leased at 680 Howard Street and 498 Sanchez Street · 1962
- 1950s52$500 voted for the Lois Reubold estate's land for a school · 1953
- 1940s43Market Street Railway allowed new track along Mariposa and Illinois Streets · 1944
- 1930s115Market Street Railway allowed a bus route from Sixteenth and Bryant · 1931
- 1920s387Voters to decide in November on a $2.2M sewer bond · 1928
- 1910s439Market Street streetcar extension to Kearny Street finally passed · 1916
- 1900s101Frank Rosenau paid $6,900 for land for the Everett Grammar School · 1909
The most notable decisions
Market Street Railway allowed a bus route from Sixteenth and Bryant
Resolution · 21 September 1931 ↗Market Street streetcar extension to Kearny Street finally passed
Ordinance · passed · 15 May 1916 ↗Church Street railway to be finished through to Van Ness Avenue
Resolution · 1 May 1916 ↗Church Street railway must use the United Railroads tracks
Resolution · 8 February 1915 ↗Church Street railway to run through Mission Park under Plan 9
Resolution · 8 February 1915 ↗Voters to decide in November on a $2.2M sewer bond
Resolution · 24 September 1928 ↗Market Street Railway allowed new track along Mariposa and Illinois Streets
Resolution · 1 May 1944 ↗$180,047 planned to turn a 2500 Market Street gym into housing
Ordinance · 15 November 2000 ↗Housing for homeless queer young adults planned at 2500 Market Street
Ordinance · 15 November 2000 ↗Glen Park Branch Library to rent 2838-42 Diamond Street
Resolution · 22 February 1972 ↗
Where this comes from
This page carries the 12 most notable decisions of each decade, 156 of the 1,559 on record; the rest are on its streets. 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