12th St
77 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 12th St, between 1906 and 2021, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about railroads and spur tracks, theatres and shows, sewers.
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What keeps coming up
- Railroads and spur tracks35Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Theatres and shows5Theatres, cinemas and travelling shows.
- Sewers2Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Police stations2Police stations and the sites bought for them.
- Churches2Congregations, and the buildings they asked the city about.
- Land bought and sold2Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2020s2Leather History Cruise plaques proposed for sidewalks in the Leather district · 2021
- 1970s2Land on Kissling Street rezoned for commercial use · 1972
- 1940s7Plan taken up to fix traffic south of Market Street · 1944
- 1930s9Daytime parking banned along Market Street from the Embarcadero to Franklin · 1937
- 1920s27Exposition Preservation League offers the city Marina land near Fort Mason · 1922
- 1910s20John A. Fears allowed a spur track off Mission Street · 1919
- 1900s10United Railroads to lay track curves at Second and Market streets · 1908
The most notable decisions
Exposition Preservation League offers the city Marina land near Fort Mason
Motion · 5 September 1922 ↗United Railroads to lay track curves at Second and Market streets
Ordinance · 21 September 1908 ↗Daytime parking banned along Market Street from the Embarcadero to Franklin
Ordinance · 28 June 1937 ↗Plan approved to extend Van Ness Avenue from Mission to Howard
Resolution · passed · 24 September 1928 ↗Land on Van Ness Avenue South leased to the highest bidder
Ordinance · 15 March 1937 ↗Bernadette Botts paid $12,100 for the Van Ness Avenue extension
Resolution · 10 June 1929 ↗Land on Kissling Street rezoned for commercial use
Ordinance · 28 August 1972 ↗City sets rules for freight on the old Ocean Shore tracks
Ordinance · 17 December 1923 ↗Plan taken up to fix traffic south of Market Street
Motion · 17 July 1944 ↗United Railroads given temporary trolley tracks into Second and Twelfth streets
Ordinance · 28 September 1908 ↗
Where this comes from
Every decision the record places on this street is here. 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