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13th St

40 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 13th St, between 1906 and 1994, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1950s; often about freeways, parking, the rules for this street changed.

Open 13th St on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

  • Freeways5The freeways, from the land bought for them to the fights about them.
  • Parking3Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
  • The rules for this street changed3Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.
  • Fire stations2Engine houses and fire stations.
  • Buildings the city rents2Space the city leases from private owners, with the rent on the record.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1990s1
    Two-hour meter parking extended on Eleventh and Otis Streets · 1994
  2. 1980s3
    Boundaries set for a South of Market industry and housing district · 1983
  3. 1960s5
    Map approved for widening Mission Street at Thirteenth Street · 1966
  4. 1950s18
    $21,735 pays for six lieutenants and fourteen new firemen · 1951
  5. 1940s3
    Bonds sought for a Broadway tunnel and other street work · 1947
  6. 1930s2
    Land on Van Ness Avenue South leased to the highest bidder · 1937
  7. 1920s3
    Bernadette Botts paid $12,100 for the Van Ness Avenue extension · 1929
  8. 1900s5
    Stables allowed for G. Ferro, G. W. McCarthy and A. Olson · 1908

The most notable decisions

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