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19 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Broad St, between 1910 and 2013, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about wires put underground, taxis and garages, railroads and spur tracks.

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What keeps coming up

  • Wires put underground3Districts where overhead wires had to come down.
  • Taxis and garages2Taxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.
  • Railroads and spur tracks2Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Parking2Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.

Decade by decade

Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.

  1. 2010s2
    Mayor Edwin Lee answers questions on budgeting and Oceanview gun violence · 2013
  2. 2000s2
    Extra height proposed for shops along Randolph and Broad Streets · 2009
  3. 1990s3
    Utility wires to go underground near Broad and Randolph Streets · 1998
  4. 1970s1
    One-way streets established on Howth and Louisburg Streets · 1976
  5. 1950s2
    Angle parking approved on part of Broad Street · 1958
  6. 1940s1
    City releases its pipeline easement on Broad Street to Will Duerner · 1941
  7. 1920s4
    Costello and Panena sell land to widen Randolph Street for streetcars · 1923
  8. 1910s4
    Sidewalk width fixed on Plymouth Street between Sagamore and Broad · 1910

The most notable decisions

Where this comes from

Every decision the record places on this street is here. 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