Columbus Ave
107 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Columbus Ave, between 1912 and 2023, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about sewers, streetcars and transit, parking.
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What keeps coming up
- Sewers9Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Streetcars and transit5Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- Parking5Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- Taxis and garages4Taxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.
- Paving and grading4Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Streets closed for a day2Parades, street fairs, block parties, ground-breakings, festivals.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2020s1Limits on flats per building to change east of Columbus Avenue · 2023
- 2000s2$157,541 grant proposed for pedestrian safety in Bayview Hunters Point · 2005
- 1990s3Left turns banned from Broadway onto Columbus Avenue at rush hour · 1991
- 1980s26Chinatown rezoned with new height limits and neighborhood business districts · 1987
- 1970s6Jackson Square made a historic district between Kearny and Sansome Streets · 1972
- 1960s12A resolution on northbound Kearny Street turning into Columbus Avenue · 1969
- 1950s5Evening stopping banned on Third Street and Bayshore Boulevard · 1953
- 1940s3$286,000 of Municipal Railway surplus voted for buses and trolley lines · 1942
- 1930s17Buildings capped at 84 feet between North Point and Union Streets · 1937
- 1920s19A. M. and Charlotte Meyer paid $16,525 for Duboce Tunnel land · 1926
- 1910s13Clinton Fireproofing Co. paid $23,822.45 for the Seventeenth Street car barn · 1915
The most notable decisions
$286,000 of Municipal Railway surplus voted for buses and trolley lines
Ordinance · 6 April 1942 ↗Chinatown rezoned with new height limits and neighborhood business districts
Ordinance · 6 April 1987 ↗Buildings capped at 84 feet between North Point and Union Streets
Ordinance · 16 August 1937 ↗Limits on flats per building to change east of Columbus Avenue
Ordinance · 17 October 2023 ↗A. M. and Charlotte Meyer paid $16,525 for Duboce Tunnel land
Resolution · 15 March 1926 ↗New banks to be barred on eighteen blocks near Columbus Avenue
Ordinance · 14 January 1985 ↗New banks barred six months between Kearny Street and Powell Street
Ordinance · 26 October 1981 ↗Jackson Square made a historic district between Kearny and Sansome Streets
Ordinance · 17 July 1972 ↗Damage to property to be weighed before street levels are changed
Ordinance · 1 August 1921 ↗Clinton Fireproofing Co. paid $23,822.45 for the Seventeenth Street car barn
Resolution · 15 March 1915 ↗
Where this comes from
Every decision the record places on this street is here. 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