Beale St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Beale St, between 1906 and 2025, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about railroads and spur tracks, sewers, parking.
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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.
- Sewers9Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Parking8Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- PG&E and the utilities6The gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.
- Streetcars and transit4Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- Police stations4Police stations and the sites bought for them.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2020s4Piers 30-32 development judged financially feasible on the Embarcadero · 2024
- 2010s1Companies urged to divest from coal and tar sands · 2018
- 2000s2Imperial Parking to run a parking lot on the Embarcadero · 2003
- 1990s18Rincon Point plan changed to allow homes, offices and taller buildings · 1991
- 1980s4Beale, First and Townsend Streets at the Embarcadero finally closed · 1989
- 1950s1Southern Pacific to get a spur track on First Street · 1950
- 1940s1City leases state land at Beale and Howard Streets · 1940
- 1930s11$228,000 for a trolley bus line from Beale to Army Street · 1939
- 1920s22Money set aside for rebuilding Beale Street from Mission to Embarcadero · 1928
- 1910s44E. W. Elliot paid $11,587.50 for building the Park Police Station · 1910
- 1900s12Beale Street regraded and a steel bridge built at Harrison Street · 1909
The most notable decisions
$228,000 for a trolley bus line from Beale to Army Street
Ordinance · 2 October 1939 ↗Rincon Point plan changed to allow homes, offices and taller buildings
Ordinance · 12 November 1991 ↗E. W. Elliot paid $11,587.50 for building the Park Police Station
Resolution · 18 July 1910 ↗$89,600 for a bridge carrying Harrison Street over Beale Street
Ordinance · 27 April 1936 ↗Trolley bus line proposed from Beale Street to Army Street
Ordinance · proposed · 24 July 1939 ↗Health Department to hire ten meat inspectors
Ordinance · 8 August 1910 ↗$4,500 provided for plans for schools the Building Committee will choose
Resolution · 25 March 1912 ↗Homes and taller buildings proposed for the South Beach renewal area
Ordinance · proposed · 26 August 1991 ↗$332,714 to widen and resurface eleven streets, Folsom Street the largest
Ordinance · 23 December 1935 ↗Hotel use dropped from the Folsom and Steuart Streets parcel
Ordinance · 18 November 1991 ↗
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