Davis St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Davis St, between 1907 and 2024, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about sewers, parking, streets closed for good.
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What keeps coming up
- Sewers18Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Parking16Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- Streets closed for good14Streets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.
- Oil tanks and boilers9Fuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.
- Railroads and spur tracks8Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Keeping horses and cows4Until about 1930 the Board voted on whether you could keep animals at your address.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2020s4725 Davis Street shops leased for $1 a year · 2024
- 2010s7124 affordable flats approved at Seawall Lot 322-1 and Davis Street · 2018
- 2000s8Three-year parking lease for Priority Parking on the Embarcadero seawall lots · 2009
- 1990s4Fire Department to fix the high-pressure water main on Clay Street · 1990
- 1980s12Charter change proposed to limit city workers' paid holidays · 1984
- 1970s19Washington, Clay and Battery Streets to be widened near Davis Street · 1977
- 1960s12City accepts Golden Gateway's plazas for public park use · 1964
- 1920s15Sidewalk widths on Broadway near The Embarcadero are done away with · 1922
- 1910s15Street levels to be changed on Front and Washington Streets · 1918
- 1900s24Money set aside to repave Folsom, Davis and Tehama Streets · 1909
The most notable decisions
124 affordable flats approved at Seawall Lot 322-1 and Davis Street
Resolution · passed · 24 July 2018 ↗City accepts Golden Gateway's plazas for public park use
Resolution · 14 December 1964 ↗Charter change proposed to limit city workers' paid holidays
Ordinance · proposed · 16 July 1984 ↗Higher bridge tolls for BART backed, with no Davis Street mention
Resolution · 17 July 1967 ↗Supervisor Francois seeks rent help written into redevelopment policy
Motion · 6 May 1968 ↗Supervisor Francois demands aid for displaced people before transit bonds
Resolution · 6 May 1968 ↗Washington, Clay and Battery Streets to be widened near Davis Street
Resolution · 31 October 1977 ↗Three-year parking lease for Priority Parking on the Embarcadero seawall lots
Resolution · 10 November 2009 ↗Garage site bounded by Clay, Battery, Washington and Davis given free
Resolution · 14 December 1964 ↗Sidewalk widths on Broadway near The Embarcadero are done away with
Ordinance · 11 December 1922 ↗
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