Chestnut St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Chestnut St, between 1910 and 2017, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about the rules for this street changed, streetcars and transit, parking.
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What keeps coming up
- The rules for this street changed10Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.
- Streetcars and transit8Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- Parking5Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- PG&E and the utilities4The gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.
- Blasting permits3Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
- Oil tanks and boilers3Fuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2010s2Jamestown proposed as tenant of the Pier 29 Bulkhead Building · 2017
- 2000s5Parking changes on Webster, Lyon, 7th and Lathrop Streets · 2004
- 1990s10$300,000 ordered to stop rockfalls on Telegraph Hill at Kearny Street · 1993
- 1980s3Height limits near Bush and Broderick Streets sent to committee · 1987
- 1970s5Stop signs tried for 90 days at Pierce and Chestnut · 1974
- 1960s2Angle parking adopted for Chestnut Street and Spear Street · 1969
- 1950s3$96,000 voted for underground railway ducts on Chestnut Street · 1955
- 1940s3Buildings between Grant Avenue and the Embarcadero limited to sixty feet · 1945
- 1930s24Buildings capped at 290 feet between Greenwich and Union streets · 1932
- 1920s43Voters to decide on $4.6M in Municipal Railway extension bonds · 1927
- 1910s20Car service on Fillmore Street to stop north of Chestnut Street · 1913
The most notable decisions
Voters to decide on $4.6M in Municipal Railway extension bonds
Ordinance · 3 October 1927 ↗Buildings between Grant Avenue and the Embarcadero limited to sixty feet
Ordinance · 29 January 1945 ↗City buys a school site from Mercantile Trust for $209,951
Resolution · 6 April 1925 ↗A. Paladini's estate paid $11,050 for Francisco School land
Resolution · 24 September 1923 ↗Building rules to change on the block at Chestnut and Mallorca
Ordinance · 27 October 1924 ↗City to sell Moccasin Creek power to the Modesto Irrigation District
Resolution · 23 August 1926 ↗Buildings capped at 290 feet between Greenwich and Union streets
Ordinance · 20 June 1932 ↗Car service on Fillmore Street to stop north of Chestnut Street
Ordinance · 5 March 1913 ↗$96,000 voted for underground railway ducts on Chestnut Street
Ordinance · 13 June 1955 ↗$7,655.81 for Eaton & Smith's extra work on the municipal railway
Resolution · 28 December 1914 ↗
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