Bryant St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Bryant St, between 1906 and 2004, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about parks and playgrounds, railroads and spur tracks, blasting permits.
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What keeps coming up
- Parks and playgrounds19Playgrounds and recreation grounds.
- Railroads and spur tracks13Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Blasting permits11Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
- Paving and grading10Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Land bought and sold9Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.
- Sewers7Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2000s9$465,252 loan for repairs to the shelter at 695 Bryant Street · 2004
- 1990s1Parking rules on 7th Street pass their first reading · 1999
- 1970s22577-87 Bryant Street rezoned from two-family housing to shops · 1979
- 1960s2Blake asks by what authority Bryant Street was shut today · 1966
- 1950s4$409,000 voted to rebuild shops at the Bryant Street Yard · 1957
- 1940s6$1,000 set aside for a used delivery truck for city plumbers · 1942
- 1920s22Shops allowed on Army Street east of Bryant Street · 1924
- 1910s39John Kane paid $2,200 for a Harriet Street playground lot · 1910
- 1900s35Louis Feder's Harriet Street lot bought for $11,000 for a playground · 1909
The most notable decisions
John Kane paid $2,200 for a Harriet Street playground lot
Resolution · 29 August 1910 ↗B. Van Alstine paid $5,650 for Denman School land
Resolution · 8 August 1910 ↗City buys Maurice Long's Harriet Street lot for the children's playground
Resolution · 9 March 1910 ↗Louis Feder's Harriet Street lot bought for $11,000 for a playground
Resolution · 20 December 1909 ↗Sarah Gilmour's Harriet Street land bought for $7,000 for the playground
Resolution · 20 December 1909 ↗$2,150 for Margaret A. Attridge's Harriet Street playground land
Resolution · 13 December 1909 ↗Catherine Flynn's Harriet Street land bought for $2,000 for a playground
Resolution · 6 December 1909 ↗City takes land for the county jail and a children's playground
Resolution · 20 July 1908 ↗Schmeidell Estate to sell land for the county jail and playground
Resolution · 15 June 1908 ↗Shops allowed on Army Street east of Bryant Street
Ordinance · 5 May 1924 ↗
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