Filbert St
114 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Filbert St, between 1906 and 2006, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about railroads and spur tracks, parking, schools.
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What keeps coming up
- Railroads and spur tracks10Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Parking9Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- Schools8School sites bought, built and repaired.
- Paving and grading6Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Blasting permits5Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
- Oil tanks and boilers4Fuel-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.
- 2000s7Turn bans at Columbus Avenue and transit lanes at Candlestick Park · 2004
- 1990s3Funding for two stairways on Greenwich and Filbert Streets urged · 1996
- 1980s10Sidewalk width to be changed on Filbert Street west of Sansome · 1983
- 1970s7Special permission proposed for tall antennas near homes · 1979
- 1960s2Barton L. Davis allowed a stairway and planters on Filbert Street · 1962
- 1950s7Turn rules adopted for Broadway at Sansome and Bay Shore Boulevard · 1959
- 1940s3Parking meters extended to Polk Street between Green and Filbert · 1949
- 1930s3Slow signs installed at Filbert and Franklin and Grant and Green · 1931
- 1920s19$5,940 voted to rebuild Divisadero Street between Filbert and Greenwich · 1926
- 1910s28San Francisco Church Extension Society paid $7,000 for Hancock School land · 1915
- 1900s25Annie Gallagher and Mary Waller paid $8,000 for Lafayette School land · 1908
The most notable decisions
San Francisco Church Extension Society paid $7,000 for Hancock School land
Resolution · 30 November 1915 ↗Annie Gallagher and Mary Waller paid $8,000 for Lafayette School land
Resolution · 29 June 1908 ↗Court action to take Chas. Huth's land beside Lafayette School
Resolution · 1 June 1908 ↗Mary Ellen Russell's estate offered $10,800 for Hancock School land
Resolution · 18 December 1908 ↗Filbert Street lot sought to enlarge the Hancock Grammar School
Resolution · proposed · 21 September 1908 ↗City moves to take Filbert Street land for the Lafayette School
Resolution · 28 May 1908 ↗Tunnel proposed under Fillmore Street between Sutter and Filbert
Resolution · proposed · 24 February 1913 ↗Presidio and Ferries Railroad leased city land at Gough Street
Resolution · 8 December 1913 ↗Antonietta Casini's $900 offer of land for Pixley Street accepted
Resolution · 25 April 1910 ↗Turn bans at Columbus Avenue and transit lanes at Candlestick Park
Resolution · 22 June 2004 ↗
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