Beach St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Beach St, between 1906 and 1994, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about railroads and spur tracks, paving and grading, sewers.
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What keeps coming up
- Railroads and spur tracks22Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Paving and grading19Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Sewers8Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- PG&E and the utilities8The gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.
- Fire stations4Engine houses and fire stations.
- Clinics and hospitals4Clinics, health centres and hospitals.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1990s1Street artist spaces on Jefferson and Beach Streets sent to committee · 1994
- 1980s3Street artists keep their selling spots on Beach Street · 1980
- 1970s4Feinstein asks for a halt on buildings over 72 feet · 1971
- 1950s2$1.7M set aside for playgrounds and recreation areas · 1952
- 1940s9Charter amendment on cable properties at California and Hyde Streets amended · 1949
- 1930s2Option to buy California Packing's block at Beach and Hyde Streets · 1939
- 1920s45Georgiana Fransen paid $3,333.33 for the Oakwood Street extension · 1929
- 1910s37Railways must handle freight cars of connecting lines without delay · 1913
- 1900s17$31,617.25 paid to seven architects for work on the new schools · 1907
The most notable decisions
$1.7M set aside for playgrounds and recreation areas
Resolution · 7 July 1952 ↗Feinstein asks for a halt on buildings over 72 feet
Ordinance · 12 April 1971 ↗Railways must handle freight cars of connecting lines without delay
Ordinance · 22 December 1913 ↗Charter amendment on cable properties at California and Hyde Streets amended
Motion · 19 September 1949 ↗Improvement ordered at Aquatic Park Beach near Van Ness Avenue
Ordinance · 28 April 1919 ↗Aquatic Park Beach to be improved at Van Ness Avenue
Ordinance · 21 April 1919 ↗Georgiana Fransen paid $3,333.33 for the Oakwood Street extension
Resolution · 21 October 1929 ↗Land given for widening and extending Fillmore Street at Marina Gardens
Resolution · 30 March 1925 ↗Southern Pacific gives the city a sewer easement along Polk Street
Ordinance · 6 June 1913 ↗John Reid Jr. paid $1,066.87 for designing the Harrison School
Resolution · 21 March 1921 ↗
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