2nd St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 2nd St, between 1906 and 2018, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about railroads and spur tracks, parking, the rules for this street changed.
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What keeps coming up
- Railroads and spur tracks43Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Parking15Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- The rules for this street changed8Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.
- Streetcars and transit5Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- Paving and grading4Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Sewers4Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2010s15Central SoMa plan added to the city's General Plan · 2018
- 2000s1New transit fee on developers sent to committee · 2004
- 1990s7Parking ban on Second and Townsend Streets passed on first reading · 1998
- 1960s1Evening stopping ban lifted on Folsom Street between Essex and Second · 1961
- 1950s3Daytime stopping banned on Jessie Street between New Montgomery and Second · 1957
- 1940s5City land on Second Street sold to the Moulins for $7,500 · 1947
- 1930s16Felton Company may switch railcars on Second Street at any hour · 1933
- 1920s18Robert L. Dunn presents plans for a bridge to Alameda · 1926
- 1910s30Proposed ban on street banners and signs sent to committee · 1918
- 1900s24United Railroads to lay track curves at Second and Market streets · 1908
The most notable decisions
Central SoMa plan added to the city's General Plan
Ordinance · 27 November 2018 ↗Waterfront and Broadway special districts redrawn on the zoning map
Ordinance · 28 February 2012 ↗Proposed ban on street banners and signs sent to committee
Ordinance · in progress · 7 January 1918 ↗Robert L. Dunn presents plans for a bridge to Alameda
Ordinance · 19 April 1926 ↗Sign districts on Broadway and the waterfront to be redrawn
Ordinance · 8 November 2011 ↗Broadway and waterfront sign districts to be redrawn
Ordinance · 1 November 2011 ↗Mayor Rolph vetoes trading transfers with Mathewson motor buses
Ordinance · 29 March 1915 ↗United Railroads to lay track curves at Second and Market streets
Ordinance · 21 September 1908 ↗New city plan proposed for central South of Market
Ordinance · proposed · 22 May 2018 ↗Faster housing approvals proposed for central South of Market
Ordinance · proposed · 1 May 2018 ↗
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