Bay St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Bay St, between 1908 and 2024, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about railroads and spur tracks, paving and grading, pg&e and the utilities.
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What keeps coming up
- Railroads and spur tracks14Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Paving and grading10Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- PG&E and the utilities9The gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.
- Sewers6Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Fire stations5Engine houses and fire stations.
- Protests and appeals5A protest recorded at a hearing, or an appeal against a decision — brought by neighbours and by applicants alike.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2020s2JPPF gets a 57-year lease on Waterfront Plaza at the Embarcadero · 2024
- 2010s2$25M gift of park building work from the Francisco Park Conservancy · 2016
- 2000s4Kira Mikagon's restaurant lease at Pier 33 South to be amended · 2000
- 1990s2AC Transit to run a welfare-to-work bus to Powell and Bay · 1999
- 1980s5Emergency work ordered on the sewer under Bay Street · 1987
- 1970s13Land near North Point and Bay Streets rezoned for public use · 1974
- 1960s5Parts of Sansome and Battery Streets made through streets · 1969
- 1950s3Mayor asked to seek an international exposition in San Francisco, 1962 · 1957
- 1940s14Land to be acquired at Marino Vista Park, San Mateo County · 1947
- 1930s16Made to approve city ownership of the electric supply · 1936
- 1920s16Block bought from Harriet de Witt Kittle for a school, $118,750 · 1924
- 1910s28Municipal railway proposed on Van Ness Avenue from Market to Bay · 1913
- 1900s10Frank Stringham given a rail franchise on Stockton and Bay streets · 1909
The most notable decisions
Frank Stringham given a rail franchise on Stockton and Bay streets
Ordinance · 18 October 1909 ↗$25M gift of park building work from the Francisco Park Conservancy
Ordinance · 19 July 2016 ↗Block bought from Harriet de Witt Kittle for a school, $118,750
Resolution · 22 December 1924 ↗$12,000 paid for land for the Laguna Honda School
Resolution · 8 June 1925 ↗Land near North Point and Bay Streets rezoned for public use
Ordinance · 4 March 1974 ↗Made to approve city ownership of the electric supply
Motion · 1 December 1936 ↗Buildings near the Marina to be capped at forty feet
Ordinance · 26 January 1931 ↗AC Transit to run a welfare-to-work bus to Powell and Bay
Resolution · 13 December 1999 ↗Twenty-five year franchise offered for a double track railroad
Ordinance · 17 May 1909 ↗Twenty-five year railroad franchise offered on city streets
Ordinance · 12 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