Bush St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Bush St, between 1907 and 2009, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1900s; often about fire stations, oil tanks and boilers, taxis and garages.
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What keeps coming up
- Fire stations19Engine houses and fire stations.
- Oil tanks and boilers13Fuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.
- Taxis and garages9Taxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.
- Blasting permits8Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
- Clinics and hospitals7Clinics, health centres and hospitals.
- Keeping horses and cows6Until about 1930 the Board voted on whether you could keep animals at your address.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2000s4$1.9M state grant to treat mentally ill parolees · 2009
- 1990s1$1.7M to move the Paramedic Division to the Fire Department · 1997
- 1980s10Extension of the home demolition ban sent to committee · 1987
- 1970s4Steiner and Bush Street corner rezoned for shops · 1973
- 1960s6Bond money allotted to rebuild fire houses and headquarters · 1965
- 1940s9Board of Education lets the airport build at Bush and Stockton · 1946
- 1930s9$154,503 for a Shoals Administration Building at Stockton and Bush streets · 1936
- 1920s21Pacific Telephone leases the Bush Street firehouse site for ten years · 1927
- 1910s24Centenary Methodist Church paid $22,000 for land for Lowell High School · 1912
- 1900s32Carpet beating shops, tanneries and shoddy mills banned in some areas · 1909
The most notable decisions
$1.9M state grant to treat mentally ill parolees
Resolution · 16 June 2009 ↗Bond money allotted to rebuild fire houses and headquarters
Ordinance · 26 April 1965 ↗Centenary Methodist Church paid $22,000 for land for Lowell High School
Resolution · 10 June 1912 ↗Centenary Methodist Church land bought to enlarge Lowell High School
Resolution · 27 May 1912 ↗Centenary Methodist Church paid $22,000 for Lowell High School land
Resolution · 27 May 1912 ↗$1.7M to move the Paramedic Division to the Fire Department
Ordinance · 24 February 1997 ↗Carpet beating shops, tanneries and shoddy mills banned in some areas
Ordinance · 29 November 1909 ↗Stricter approval rules adopted for the Bush Street-Cottage Row district
Ordinance · passed · 30 June 2009 ↗$3,000 shifted from a Bush Street fire house to Ashbury Heights
Resolution · 8 June 1908 ↗$154,503 for a Shoals Administration Building at Stockton and Bush streets
Ordinance · 9 March 1936 ↗
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