7th St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 7th St, between 1906 and 2020, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1900s; often about railroads and spur tracks, sewers, parking.
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What keeps coming up
- Railroads and spur tracks19Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Sewers12Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Parking9Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- Oil tanks and boilers8Fuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.
- Fire stations8Engine houses and fire stations.
- Paving and grading7Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2020s3Mission Bay streets to be renamed, with Channel Street becoming Mission Creek · 2020
- 2010s12Sidewalk widths set for the new Mission Bay Drive streets · 2018
- 2000s1Taller buildings proposed at King and Seventh Streets · 2003
- 1990s1Parking meters extended on Townsend Street near Seventh Street · 1991
- 1980s5Interim height limits proposed for Mid-Market between Ninth and Seventh · 1987
- 1970s2$400,000 set aside for parking in a neighborhood shopping district · 1971
- 1960s4Barstow Street and nearby streets closed between Sixth and Seventh · 1963
- 1950s3Supervisor Casey finds $125,000 for Seventh Street never submitted · 1957
- 1940s9Bonds sought for a Broadway tunnel and other street work · 1947
- 1930s4$15,000 for new gutter strips along Market Street downtown · 1937
- 1920s25Money set aside for rebuilding Seventh Street from Mission to Brannan · 1928
- 1910s17$42,500 firehouse ordered on Seventh Street near Harrison Street · 1910
- 1900s34C. E. Cook and Edith Moulton paid $50,144 for playground land · 1909
The most notable decisions
C. E. Cook and Edith Moulton paid $50,144 for playground land
Resolution · 12 April 1909 ↗Chas. Huth paid $750 for land at the Lafayette School site
Resolution · 2 November 1908 ↗Schmeidell Estate to sell land for the county jail and playground
Resolution · 8 June 1908 ↗$42,500 firehouse ordered on Seventh Street near Harrison Street
Ordinance · 27 December 1910 ↗Saloons may reopen at their former places despite location
Ordinance · 5 July 1906 ↗Bonds sought for a Broadway tunnel and other street work
Resolution · proposed · 28 July 1947 ↗$400,000 set aside for parking in a neighborhood shopping district
Ordinance · 28 June 1971 ↗Schmieden Estate Company asked to sell land for a children's playground
Resolution · 31 July 1907 ↗City land at Lombard and Franklin Streets to be leased out
Ordinance · 29 September 1947 ↗Star Brewery paid $5,250 for its lease at Bryant and Seventh
Resolution · 26 April 1909 ↗
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