1st St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 1st St, between 1907 and 1999, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about railroads and spur tracks, sewers, paving and grading.
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What keeps coming up
- Railroads and spur tracks20Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Sewers14Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Paving and grading11Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Parking9Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- Oil tanks and boilers5Fuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.
- The rules for this street changed5Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1990s23Rincon Point plan changed to allow homes, offices and taller buildings · 1991
- 1980s6$50M in bonds for 414 flats on Townsend Street · 1985
- 1970s2Continental Trailways keeps its First Street space until 1979 · 1976
- 1950s4Land taken near Bryant and First Streets, Fremont Street to close · 1951
- 1940s3Overhead wires banned on First Street between Harrison and Bryant · 1940
- 1930s16Fire limits extended to Sixth, First, Howard and Brannan streets · 1934
- 1920s17Sidewalks abolished on Elim Alley between First and Ecker streets · 1920
- 1910s37Sidewalks on San Bruno Avenue set at eight and ten feet · 1913
- 1900s12Williams & Belser paid for building the First Street sewer · 1908
The most notable decisions
$50M in bonds for 414 flats on Townsend Street
Resolution · 9 December 1985 ↗Rincon Point plan changed to allow homes, offices and taller buildings
Ordinance · 12 November 1991 ↗Reworked South Beach redevelopment plan amendment adopted
Ordinance · passed · 12 November 1991 ↗Fire limits extended to Sixth, First, Howard and Brannan streets
Ordinance · 10 December 1934 ↗Hotel use moved to be struck from the South Beach plan
Ordinance · 18 November 1991 ↗Homes and taller buildings proposed for the South Beach renewal area
Ordinance · proposed · 9 October 1991 ↗Continental Trailways keeps its First Street space until 1979
Resolution · 3 November 1976 ↗Florence Claraty leases the Tehama Street school land for $101 monthly
Ordinance · 22 June 1936 ↗School land on Tehama Street near First Street to be leased
Ordinance · 2 March 1936 ↗Sidewalks on San Bruno Avenue set at eight and ten feet
Ordinance · 14 July 1913 ↗
Where this comes from
The street holds more than 120 decisions; this page carries the 120 most notable. 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