Broadway
11 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Broadway, between 1907 and 1985, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1980s; often about dance halls and masquerades.
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What keeps coming up
- Dance halls and masquerades4Permits for balls and dances, named by the club holding them and the hall they hired.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
The most notable decisions
Twelve-month freeze on losing flats between Broadway and Bush Street
Resolution · 25 November 1985 ↗Freeze on demolishing flats between Broadway and Bush Street adopted
Motion · passed · 12 August 1985 ↗Permit freeze near Van Ness Avenue extended to March 1981
Ordinance · 27 October 1980 ↗New banks barred six months between Kearny Street and Powell Street
Ordinance · 26 October 1981 ↗Six-month freeze on new restaurants and clubs near Van Ness Avenue
Ordinance · 25 February 1980 ↗Contractors would have to keep garbage cans at building sites
Ordinance · 2 March 1908 ↗Housing conversion freeze between Broadway and Bush sent to committee
Resolution · in progress · 12 August 1985 ↗Sidewalks on Webster Street cut from fifteen feet to nine
Departmental work · 1944 ↗Tillman & Bendel spur track proposed on Front and Vallejo Streets
Ordinance · proposed · 25 March 1907 ↗
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