Financial District/South Beach
2,519 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Financial District/South Beach, between 1906 and 2026, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about hotels and rooming houses, liquor licences, theatres and shows.
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Its busiest streets
Market St120+ · Mission St120+ · Howard St120+ · Bush St120+ · Kearny St120+ · Grant Ave120+ · Harrison St120+ · Beale St120+
What keeps coming up
- Hotels and rooming houses147Hotels and rooming houses, concentrated in a handful of neighbourhoods.
- Liquor licences71Bars, shops and restaurants — the licence following the address as it changes hands.
- Theatres and shows40Theatres, cinemas and travelling shows.
- Police stations40Police stations and the sites bought for them.
- Sidewalk permits18Steps, planters, ramps and parklets standing on public sidewalk.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2020s79$28.3M loan adopted for 108 affordable homes on South Park Street. · 2020
- 2010s22153 affordable senior flats to be built at 735 Davis Street · 2018
- 2000s202$33M in bonds for the 178 Townsend Street housing project · 2009
- 1990s166Drumm Street land moved to Recreation and Park, no building allowed · 1999
- 1980s167Five branch library sites approved, from Glen Park to Ingleside · 1987
- 1970s121Bus-only lanes set on Clay, Geary, Post and Sutter Streets · 1970
- 1960s74Public garage near Washington and Davis Streets gets another floor · 1961
- 1950s79City and state agree on a six-lane viaduct along Thirteenth Street · 1951
- 1940s129More Market Street Railway tracks to be pulled up for buses · 1943
- 1930s249Market Street Railway granted a permit to run buses · 1939
- 1920s447Harbor Emergency Hospital ordered on Sacramento Street near the Embarcadero · 1924
- 1910s356City orders its own street railway built on Market Street · 1917
- 1900s229Plans filed for a city railroad along Geary Street · 1909
The most notable decisions
Five branch library sites approved, from Glen Park to Ingleside
Resolution · passed · 4 May 1987 ↗$33M in bonds for the 178 Townsend Street housing project
Resolution · 24 November 2009 ↗$33M in bonds to rehabilitate housing at 178 Townsend Street
Resolution · 24 November 2009 ↗More Market Street Railway tracks to be pulled up for buses
Ordinance · 1 June 1943 ↗Market Street Railway allowed buses on Front and Sansome Streets
Resolution · 8 June 1942 ↗Market Street Railway tracks to be pulled up and buses substituted
Ordinance · 13 April 1942 ↗Market Street Railway gets a bus route to Hunter's Point Boulevard
Resolution · 25 November 1940 ↗City orders its own street railway built on Market Street
Ordinance · 5 February 1917 ↗Cable railway torn out and new track laid on Geary Street
Departmental work · 1910 ↗Plans filed for a city railroad along Geary Street
Ordinance · 15 November 1909 ↗
Where this comes from
This page carries the 12 most notable decisions of each decade, 156 of the 2,519 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