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120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about California St, between 1906 and 2024, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about railroads and spur tracks, schools, streetcars and transit.

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What keeps coming up

  • Railroads and spur tracks10Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Schools10School sites bought, built and repaired.
  • Streetcars and transit8Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
  • Paving and grading6Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
  • Blasting permits4Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
  • The rules for this street changed4Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2020s5
    Greater Union Square district annual report approved · 2021
  2. 2010s3
    Forty-five day freeze proposed on institutional changes in University Mound · 2014
  3. 2000s11
    Easier rules proposed for setting up business improvement districts · 2004
  4. 1980s3
    Anti-Klan rally at United Nations Plaza sent to committee · 1980
  5. 1970s2
    Miles Street north of California Street closed for good · 1971
  6. 1960s4
    $3,172 to fit out the radio shop at 1745 California Street · 1960
  7. 1950s9
    Board buys land for the St. Mary's Square garage despite objections · 1951
  8. 1940s9
    $29,540 paid to Mayfair Heights Corporation for more school land · 1946
  9. 1930s4
    Gas tax money agreed for Ocean Avenue and Islais Creek bridge · 1936
  10. 1920s24
    Land on Twenty-second Avenue given over for a new school · 1923
  11. 1910s30
    Anderson & Ringrose paid $15,645 for building the Argonne School · 1919
  12. 1900s16
    Mary Trobock paid $7,500 for land for St. Mary's Square · 1909

The most notable decisions

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