6th St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 6th St, between 1906 and 2025, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1900s; often about railroads and spur tracks, oil tanks and boilers, paving and grading.
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What keeps coming up
- Railroads and spur tracks21Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Oil tanks and boilers11Fuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.
- Paving and grading10Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Sewers9Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Parking6Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- Police stations6Police stations and the sites bought for them.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2020s1Rent credit for BART's new airport fare gates sent to committee · 2025
- 2010s1$16.2M in federal block grant money sought for community development · 2012
- 2000s5$41,667 released for Urban Solutions' Sixth Street revitalization work · 2003
- 1990s13Mission Bay housing site to be rezoned for commerce and industry · 1997
- 1980s1Call to defend race in affirmative action sent to committee · 1987
- 1960s1Owens Street opened and the Market and Castro intersection widened · 1964
- 1950s1Board buys land for the St. Mary's Square garage despite objections · 1951
- 1940s1City gives up the viaduct steel over Sixteenth and Illinois Streets · 1942
- 1930s15Bus route supplementing the No. 10 line approved as read · 1939
- 1920s26Butte Electric paid $1,610.88 for the Treasurer's burglar alarm · 1927
- 1910s17Southern Pacific may not park cars on Bluxome Street by day · 1919
- 1900s38Terrill Brothers paid $7,728.75 for work on the Hayes Street library · 1908
The most notable decisions
Bus route supplementing the No. 10 line approved as read
Ordinance · passed · 28 August 1939 ↗Mission Bay housing site to be rezoned for commerce and industry
Ordinance · 16 June 1997 ↗Mission Bay site north of Sixteenth Street opened to biotech labs
Ordinance · 16 June 1997 ↗Mission Bay site proposed for biotechnology research buildings
Resolution · proposed · 28 April 1997 ↗$41,667 released for Urban Solutions' Sixth Street revitalization work
Resolution · 9 April 2003 ↗Police seek state money for a violence against women unit
Resolution · 6 July 1999 ↗Owens Street opened and the Market and Castro intersection widened
Departmental work · 1964 ↗Board buys land for the St. Mary's Square garage despite objections
Resolution · 23 April 1951 ↗Butte Electric paid $1,610.88 for the Treasurer's burglar alarm
Resolution · 6 June 1927 ↗Plummer Mfg. Co. gets $28,740 for curtains in the Exposition Auditorium
Resolution · 2 July 1923 ↗
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