Folsom St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Folsom St, between 1907 and 2024, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about railroads and spur tracks, schools, sewers.
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What keeps coming up
- Railroads and spur tracks24Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Schools20School sites bought, built and repaired.
- Sewers10Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Land bought and sold6Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.
- Streets closed for good5Streets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.
- Paving and grading4Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2020s1Late-night venues on Brannan and Folsom Streets sent to committee · 2024
- 2000s8$4.3M passed for seismic upgrades at San Francisco General Hospital · 2008
- 1990s4$133,040 approved for emergency sewer work on 4th Street · 1999
- 1980s7Up to $40M in housing bonds refinanced for St. Francis Place · 1989
- 1970s1Hills Bros. Coffee's spur track on Steuart Street to be revoked · 1977
- 1960s5Low-rent housing backed on the blocks between Harrison and Folsom Streets · 1969
- 1950s3$155,163.74 voted for a firehouse at Nineteenth and Folsom Streets · 1953
- 1940s1$6,500 for more land at Nineteenth and Folsom for a firehouse · 1949
- 1930s10Land bought to open Shipley Street between Fourth and Fifth streets · 1930
- 1920s23McDonald & Kahn to build Mission High School for $807,340 · 1925
- 1910s43City pays Jacob Przyborowski $2,150 for school land on Folsom Street · 1915
- 1900s14Money set aside to repave Folsom, Davis and Tehama Streets · 1909
The most notable decisions
McDonald & Kahn to build Mission High School for $807,340
Resolution · 13 July 1925 ↗$1,850 paid to Josephine Breen for school land on Juniper Street
Resolution · 26 January 1920 ↗City pays Jacob Przyborowski $2,150 for school land on Folsom Street
Resolution · 7 September 1915 ↗John Christenson paid $1,650 for school land on Folsom Street
Resolution · 28 June 1915 ↗$2,700 paid to Clarence Wickert for school land on Folsom Street
Resolution · 28 June 1915 ↗J. Farren paid $2,600 for school land on Folsom Street
Resolution · 28 June 1915 ↗City accepts J. Farren's $2,600 offer of Folsom Street school land
Resolution · 7 June 1915 ↗Clarence E. Wickert paid $2,700 for school land on Folsom Street
Resolution · 7 June 1915 ↗City accepts Clarence Wickert's $2,700 offer of Folsom Street school land
Resolution · 7 June 1915 ↗City accepts John Christenson's $1,650 offer of Folsom Street school land
Resolution · 7 June 1915 ↗
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