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Franklin St

120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Franklin St, between 1907 and 1995, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about schools, land bought and sold, taxis and garages.

Open Franklin St on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

  • Schools18School sites bought, built and repaired.
  • Land bought and sold10Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.
  • Taxis and garages8Taxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.
  • Libraries7Branch libraries — several of them shops the city rented one year at a time.
  • Sewers6Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
  • War and the military6The military in the city, and what the wars did to it.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1990s1
    $100,000 emergency repair proposed for the Owens Street force main · 1995
  2. 1980s2
    Redwood Street stretch to be closed and sold for $865,375 · 1983
  3. 1970s4
    Rule change proposed so the Board elects its own president · 1979
  4. 1960s1
    Map approved to widen Geary Boulevard between Broderick and Franklin · 1961
  5. 1950s4
    First contract awarded to widen Geary Street between Franklin and Masonic · 1959
  6. 1940s3
    City land at Lombard and Franklin Streets to be leased out · 1947
  7. 1930s10
    $1,061.84 for a traffic signal at Market and Franklin Streets · 1935
  8. 1920s47
    Bartholomew Cademartori sells school land at Franklin and Green for $27,500 · 1925
  9. 1910s22
    $4,000 to buy Green Street land for the Sherman School · 1916
  10. 1900s26
    Terrill Bros paid $5,382 for the library building on Hayes Street · 1907

The most notable decisions

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