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Japantown

166 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Japantown, between 1906 and 2025, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about parking, the rules for this street changed, streets closed for a day.

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Its busiest streets

Post St120+ · Geary Blvd120+ · Sutter St120+ · Fillmore St120+ · Buchanan St120+ · Webster St120+ · Broderick St107 · Scott St76

What keeps coming up

  • Parking21Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
  • The rules for this street changed11Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.
  • Streets closed for a day9Parades, street fairs, block parties, ground-breakings, festivals.
  • Liquor licences8Bars, shops and restaurants — the licence following the address as it changes hands.
  • Taxis and garages7Taxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2020s6
    City to keep its 33-bed treatment center at 1421 Broderick Street · 2021
  2. 2010s11
    Parcel merger map approved at 1400 Baker Street · 2017
  3. 2000s22
    Miyako Mall grants a walkway to Japantown's Peace Plaza · 2000
  4. 1990s25
    1820 Post Street leased 50 years to keep low-rent flats · 1999
  5. 1980s21
    2000 Post Street rezoned from shops to flats · 1982
  6. 1970s14
    2130 Post Street rezoned from shops to apartments · 1979
  7. 1960s11
    Webster Street rebuilt as the road through the Western Addition · 1962
  8. 1950s4
    Webster Street to be widened to four lanes in 1959 · 1958
  9. 1940s8
    Overhead wires to be banned on Post Street after widening · 1940
  10. 1930s10
    Small street improvements planned at Chestnut, Green and Webster streets · 1936
  11. 1920s19
    Post Street near Broderick opened to shops instead of housing · 1925
  12. 1910s10
    Mrs. Sarah Marks allowed a 25-horse stable at 2379 Post Street · 1917
  13. 1900s5
    City takes over the new roadway on Broderick Street · 1908

The most notable decisions

Where this comes from

This page carries the 12 most notable decisions of each decade, 107 of the 166 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