Castro St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Castro St, between 1906 and 2015, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1930s; often about schools, the rules for this street changed, environmental review.
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What keeps coming up
- Schools19School sites bought, built and repaired.
- The rules for this street changed13Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.
- Environmental review10Nothing before the 1970s, then permanent: the review law arriving and staying.
- Railroads and spur tracks6Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Land bought and sold6Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.
- Blasting permits5Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2010s9Extra flats allowed in buildings undergoing earthquake retrofits · 2015
- 2000s3More time asked for Planning on Castro Street shop rules · 2000
- 1990s7Design contract to rise from $9.5M to $14M, sent to committee · 1999
- 1980s9Zoning map updated for the Castro Street special district · 1980
- 1970s2Cost of underground electric connections on Castro Street billed to owners · 1977
- 1960s3Improvement ordered for Castro Street between 28th and Duncan Streets · 1965
- 1950s7Rules set for disposing of unclaimed property at San Francisco Hospital · 1957
- 1940s5Farnum and Moffitt Street improvements backed with $1,200 in city aid · 1949
- 1930s36Four owners paid for school land near Castro and Clipper streets · 1930
- 1920s21Western Pipe & Steel paid $199,105.54 for the bay crossing pipeline · 1923
- 1910s14Report on extending the Municipal Railway over Taraval Street · 1918
- 1900s4McKinley School to be built at Fourteenth and Castro Streets · 1906
The most notable decisions
Extra flats allowed in buildings undergoing earthquake retrofits
Ordinance · 17 March 2015 ↗McKinley School to be built at Fourteenth and Castro Streets
Resolution · 1 November 1906 ↗Four owners paid for school land near Castro and Clipper streets
Resolution · 23 June 1930 ↗Peter Markatos's Ulloa Street lot bought for a school, $1,500
Resolution · 9 June 1930 ↗Elizabeth Mullane's Castro Street land bought for a school, $3,000
Resolution · 2 June 1930 ↗Amanda Kamps paid $12,500 for school land at Castro and Clipper
Resolution · 12 May 1930 ↗John J. White paid for school land on Twenty-fifth Street
Resolution · 12 May 1930 ↗$20,000 paid to Marguretha Drewes for school land near Castro Street
Resolution · 14 April 1930 ↗In-law flats to be allowed around the Castro Street shopping district
Ordinance · 15 April 2014 ↗New flats in earthquake-retrofitted buildings pass first reading
Ordinance · 10 March 2015 ↗
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