Channel St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Channel St, between 1906 and 2020, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1900s; often about paving and grading, sewers, railroads and spur tracks.
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What keeps coming up
- Paving and grading17Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Sewers13Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Railroads and spur tracks10Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Parking10Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- Streets closed for good9Streets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.
- Blasting permits4Permission 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.
- 2020s3Mission Bay streets to be renamed, with Channel Street becoming Mission Creek · 2020
- 2010s10$400,000 from the Norcal land swap finally passed · 2010
- 2000s5Turn bans at Columbus Avenue and transit lanes at Candlestick Park · 2004
- 1990s4$100,000 emergency repair to the Owens Street force main · 1995
- 1980s10Bids invited to lease the closed part of Channel Street · 1987
- 1970s2Sewer work allowed near the Embarcadero, Channel Street and Islais Creek · 1976
- 1950s5Southern Pacific land bought for $15,825 for a sewage pumping station · 1959
- 1940s6Street levels changed on Channel Street and Carolina Street · 1940
- 1930s3Gas tax money agreed for Ocean Avenue and Islais Creek bridge · 1936
- 1920s22State bill would give the city the Channel Street lands · 1929
- 1910s17$4,906.05 to pipe water to the University Mound District · 1915
- 1900s33Terrill Brothers paid $4,000 more for the Page and Cole library · 1909
The most notable decisions
Terrill Brothers paid $4,000 more for the Page and Cole library
Resolution · 14 June 1909 ↗State bill would give the city the Channel Street lands
Motion · 4 March 1929 ↗Bus service proposed along The Embarcadero from Channel to Jefferson streets
Ordinance · proposed · 9 February 1925 ↗Gas tax money agreed for Ocean Avenue and Islais Creek bridge
Resolution · 28 September 1936 ↗City amends its rules on storing crude petroleum
Ordinance · 4 September 1923 ↗$4,906.05 to pipe water to the University Mound District
Resolution · 19 April 1915 ↗$3,000 set aside to move the Corporation Yard to Eleventh and Channel
Resolution · 14 June 1909 ↗$2,500 set aside to move the corporation yard to Channel Street
Resolution · 5 April 1909 ↗Money set aside to move the corporation yard to Channel Street
Resolution · 29 March 1909 ↗$35,000 set aside for a courts building at Bush and Stockton
Resolution · 28 February 1907 ↗
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