Battery St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Battery St, between 1906 and 2003, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about oil tanks and boilers, parking, railroads and spur tracks.
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What keeps coming up
- Oil tanks and boilers17Fuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.
- Parking15Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- Railroads and spur tracks6Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Blasting permits4Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
- Taxis and garages4Taxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.
- Environmental review3Nothing before the 1970s, then permanent: the review law arriving and staying.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2000s1$40 fee for domestic partnership filings sent to committee · 2003
- 1990s3One-way traffic adopted on Linden Street, tow-away on Manchester Street · 1993
- 1980s20Commercial Street closed to cars for a pedestrian mall · 1987
- 1970s8Washington, Clay and Battery Streets to be widened near Davis Street · 1977
- 1960s6Turns set from Broadway into Sansome and Embarcadero into Bay · 1969
- 1950s7Extra welfare payments approved as the Public Welfare Department asked · 1952
- 1940s6Parking banned day and night on Clay and Jessie Streets · 1947
- 1930s10$332,714 to widen and resurface eleven streets, Folsom Street the largest · 1935
- 1920s19$1,709.55 for beacon posts on the Market Street safety islands · 1929
- 1910s18Digging in Battery Street to be banned · 1916
- 1900s22$4,000 set aside for a sewer on Pine Street · 1907
The most notable decisions
Extra welfare payments approved as the Public Welfare Department asked
Resolution · passed · 14 January 1952 ↗Commercial Street closed to cars for a pedestrian mall
Ordinance · 4 May 1987 ↗Washington, Clay and Battery Streets to be widened near Davis Street
Resolution · 31 October 1977 ↗$300,658 of plans and surveys adopted for the Embarcadero waterfront district
Resolution · passed · 17 June 1957 ↗$332,714 to widen and resurface eleven streets, Folsom Street the largest
Ordinance · 23 December 1935 ↗Digging in Battery Street to be banned
Ordinance · 1 May 1916 ↗One-way traffic adopted on Linden Street, tow-away on Manchester Street
Resolution · passed · 16 February 1993 ↗Pedestrian mall on Commerce Street to be accepted as a gift
Resolution · 23 June 1986 ↗Commerce Street to close to cars and become a pedestrian mall
Ordinance · 17 March 1986 ↗Commerce Street to become a pedestrian mall between Front and Battery
Resolution · 10 March 1986 ↗
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