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South of Market

2,541 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about South of Market, between 1906 and 2026, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about buildings the city rents, liquor licences, police stations.

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Its busiest streets

Folsom St120+ · Market St120+ · Mission St120+ · Bryant St120+ · Harrison St120+ · Howard St120+ · Brannan St120+ · Jessie St120+

What keeps coming up

  • Buildings the city rents133Space the city leases from private owners, with the rent on the record.
  • Liquor licences58Bars, shops and restaurants — the licence following the address as it changes hands.
  • Police stations49Police stations and the sites bought for them.
  • Housing bonds39How affordable housing is paid for, in the years since the 1980s.
  • Shelters and homelessness18Shelters and supportive housing — and where the city put them.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2020s164
    Five Keys' shelter hotel grant on Market Street raised by $6.5M · 2022
  2. 2010s288
    $103.0M in housing bonds approved for 1064-1068 Mission Street · 2019
  3. 2000s213
    City to take the Old Mint on Fifth Street for $1 · 2003
  4. 1990s216
    $1.5M to buy the homeless shelter at 695 Bryant Street · 1990
  5. 1980s147
    965 Mission Street approved for substance abuse treatment services · 1987
  6. 1970s103
    248 Sixth Street to be bought for open space · 1979
  7. 1960s38
    Budget report cuts new cars, equipment and new programs · 1969
  8. 1950s42
    Left and right turns banned at junctions across the city · 1959
  9. 1940s98
    Hale Bros. Realty leases city land between Stevenson and Jessie Streets · 1944
  10. 1930s184
    Bonds approved to run Fifth Street and Grant Avenue across Market · 1937
  11. 1920s377
    School to be built on Harrison Street between Tenth and Eleventh · 1920
  12. 1910s452
    Lillie Faubel's land on Juniper Street bought for a school, $1,850 · 1919
  13. 1900s219
    $7,000 paid to Sarah Gilmour for playground land on Harriet Street · 1909

The most notable decisions

Where this comes from

This page carries the 12 most notable decisions of each decade, 156 of the 2,541 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