5th St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 5th St, between 1906 and 2009, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about fire stations, sewers, railroads and spur tracks.
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What keeps coming up
- Fire stations13Engine houses and fire stations.
- Sewers11Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Railroads and spur tracks10Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Blasting permits7Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
- Schools6School sites bought, built and repaired.
- Parking5Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2000s3Castro Street bars could get entertainment permits without special permission · 2004
- 1990s5Part of Channel Street to be closed for good · 1990
- 1980s5Board moves to start Mid-Market controls between Fifth and Ninth Streets · 1985
- 1970s13Gift of a pavilion accepted for Hallidie Plaza · 1975
- 1960s8$101,800 for land on the Fifth Street extension, plus firehouse money. · 1967
- 1950s3George Willard Somers sells Mission Street land for $301,425 · 1957
- 1940s11Army-Navy board urges a new bay tube and rapid transit · 1947
- 1930s9Bonds proposed to cut Fifth Street through Market Street · 1937
- 1920s21Lease of Stevenson Street lot requires an eight-story building for firemen · 1923
- 1910s26F. H. Born paid $12,144.75 for building the Hancock Grammar School · 1910
- 1900s16Pacific Coast Waiters paid $13,500 for a firehouse site · 1909
The most notable decisions
F. H. Born paid $12,144.75 for building the Hancock Grammar School
Resolution · 15 August 1910 ↗Engine House No. 17 on Mint Avenue finally passed
Ordinance · passed · 9 May 1916 ↗Julia E. Cavanagh's Stevenson Street land bought for the Fire Department
Resolution · 15 August 1910 ↗Pacific Coast Waiters paid $13,500 for a firehouse site
Resolution · 18 October 1909 ↗Army-Navy board urges a new bay tube and rapid transit
Resolution · 26 May 1947 ↗Bonds proposed to cut Fifth Street through Market Street
Resolution · proposed · 12 April 1937 ↗Castro Street bars could get entertainment permits without special permission
Ordinance · 14 December 2004 ↗Gift of a pavilion accepted for Hallidie Plaza
Resolution · 24 March 1975 ↗$400,000 set aside for parking in a neighborhood shopping district
Ordinance · 28 June 1971 ↗$101,800 for land on the Fifth Street extension, plus firehouse money.
Ordinance · 2 October 1967 ↗
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