8th St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 8th St, between 1906 and 2013, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about the rules for this street changed, parking, railroads and spur tracks.
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What keeps coming up
- The rules for this street changed28Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.
- 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.
- Keeping horses and cows6Until about 1930 the Board voted on whether you could keep animals at your address.
- Laundries6Laundries needed the Board's permission, and their neighbours sometimes objected.
- Streets closed for good6Streets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2010s24Monthly city contribution set for the Health Service Trust Fund · 2012
- 2000s9Jessie Street to close for good for a federal office building · 2000
- 1990s5Sidewalk widths changed at Brannan and Eighth Streets · 1993
- 1980s13Taller buildings allowed on Townsend Street for the Showplace Market Center · 1986
- 1960s1Townsend Street sidewalk to be set at nine feet wide · 1965
- 1940s4Part of Eighth Street between Alameda and DeHaro to be closed · 1949
- 1930s12City block on De Haro Street to be leased out · 1937
- 1920s26Scavengers Protective Union has run the Eighth Street incinerator seven years · 1926
- 1910s23Bryant Street to be raised four feet at Ninth Street · 1913
- 1900s3A stable for horses allowed on Eighth Street near Harrison Street · 1907
The most notable decisions
Monthly city contribution set for the Health Service Trust Fund
Resolution · 24 January 2012 ↗Taller buildings allowed on Townsend Street for the Showplace Market Center
Ordinance · 22 December 1986 ↗Zoning map change begun for Townsend, Seventh and Eighth Streets
Motion · 22 December 1986 ↗Taller buildings proposed on Townsend, Seventh and Eighth Streets
Ordinance · proposed · 3 November 1986 ↗City block on De Haro Street to be leased out
Ordinance · 9 August 1937 ↗Loading only on Market Street from Battery to Hyde by day
Ordinance · 11 October 1937 ↗$71,750 solar grant to be accepted from the Energy Department
Resolution · 1 May 2012 ↗Sidewalk widths changed at Brannan and Eighth Streets
Ordinance · 19 July 1993 ↗Townsend Street sidewalk to be set at nine feet wide
Ordinance · 11 October 1965 ↗$28,900 for street widening with Works Progress Administration crews
Ordinance · 6 February 1939 ↗
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