4th St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 4th St, between 1906 and 2012, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1900s; often about paving and grading, parking, railroads and spur tracks.
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What keeps coming up
- Paving and grading13Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Parking10Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- Railroads and spur tracks8Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Oil tanks and boilers6Fuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.
- Sewers6Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Schools6School sites bought, built and repaired.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2010s9City takes over new Mission Bay streets and their upkeep · 2012
- 2000s12TRC-Imbsen hired for Fourth Street Bridge seismic work · 2008
- 1990s6Temporary building limits proposed near the ballpark · 1997
- 1980s6Emergency transit power ducts funded under Third and Fourth Streets · 1984
- 1970s11Land near Townsend and King Streets rezoned from industry to shops · 1976
- 1960s3Yerba Buena land use plan put off one more week · 1966
- 1950s2$24,000 voted to rebuild sewer and pavement on Twenty-seventh Avenue · 1954
- 1930s5Land bought to open Shipley Street between Fourth and Fifth streets · 1930
- 1920s11$38,429.23 more set aside for the Pulgas Tunnel · 1924
- 1910s23New bridge to be built over the channel at Fourth Street · 1915
- 1900s32Library lot at Clary and Fourth Streets given to the police · 1909
The most notable decisions
Library lot at Clary and Fourth Streets given to the police
Ordinance · 10 April 1909 ↗New bridge to be built over the channel at Fourth Street
Ordinance · 5 April 1915 ↗Land near Townsend and King Streets rezoned from industry to shops
Ordinance · 4 October 1976 ↗Thomson Bridge Co. paid $810.94 for the Fourth Street bascule bridge
Resolution · 6 June 1917 ↗$4,500 to move the Southern Police Station across Clara Street
Resolution · 13 June 1910 ↗Emergency transit power ducts funded under Third and Fourth Streets
Resolution · 11 June 1984 ↗$275,000 voted to move trolley wires at Mission and Fourth Streets
Ordinance · 3 February 1975 ↗$38,429.23 more set aside for the Pulgas Tunnel
Resolution · 18 August 1924 ↗Temporary building limits proposed near the ballpark
Resolution · proposed · 22 December 1997 ↗City and the state end the Fourth Street overpass project
Resolution · 28 May 1974 ↗
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