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109 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Francis, between 1909 and 2019, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about parking, streetcars and transit, railroads and spur tracks.

What keeps coming up

  • Parking15Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
  • Streetcars and transit12Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
  • Railroads and spur tracks6Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Land and buildings split up5A lot split in two, or a building divided into flats that sell separately.
  • Police stations4Police stations and the sites bought for them.
  • Wires put underground3Districts where overhead wires had to come down.

Decade by decade

Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.

  1. 2010s27
    Mission Rock development deal approved at Seawall Lot 337 · 2018
  2. 2000s14
    New public street named Terry A. Francois Boulevard in Mission Bay · 2006
  3. 1990s10
    Mission Bay zoning change passed on first reading · 1998
  4. 1980s14
    Parking limits changed on Channel, Dolores, Vermont and Noriega Streets · 1984
  5. 1970s10
    Portola Drive underpass at St. Francis Circle declared a public necessity · 1973
  6. 1960s3
    Santa Clara Avenue and St. Francis Boulevard added to restricted streets · 1960
  7. 1950s4
    Sloat Boulevard's center strips made part of the public street · 1954
  8. 1940s4
    Buildings bought for the Portola Drive widening to be auctioned off · 1941
  9. 1930s5
    Wires go underground on Portola Drive · 1931
  10. 1920s7
    $7,000 to move streetcar tracks as Junipero Serra Boulevard widens · 1929
  11. 1910s9
    Anderson & Ringrose paid $22,243.76 for the Monroe School · 1919
  12. 1900s2
    $10,000 for roads in St. Francis Park, the old City Cemetery · 1909

The most notable decisions

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