Fremont St
58 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Fremont St, between 1906 and 2004, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about railroads and spur tracks, parking, oil tanks and boilers.
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What keeps coming up
- Railroads and spur tracks8Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Parking7Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- Oil tanks and boilers5Fuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.
- Streetcars and transit5Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- Paving and grading3Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Streets closed for good3Streets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2000s1Parking changes on Howard, Taylor and Masonic, including Trader Joe's frontage · 2004
- 1990s1Jefferson, Embarcadero, Folsom and Fremont Streets closed temporarily · 1990
- 1980s6Tow-away zone on Judah Street and new turns on Folsom Street · 1985
- 1970s2
- 1960s2Block between Market and Fremont Streets rezoned for downtown business · 1965
- 1950s6Extra welfare payments approved as the Public Welfare Department asked · 1952
- 1940s6Market Street Railway allowed buses from Fremont Street to Battery Street · 1940
- 1930s7$75,000 for terminal tracks, with Market Street Railway paying rent · 1938
- 1920s3John Maher allowed a parking lot on Fremont Street · 1929
- 1910s1480,000 circulars on charter amendments to be printed for voters · 1910
- 1900s10$60,000 set aside for repaving Clay, Fremont and Third streets · 1908
The most notable decisions
Extra welfare payments approved as the Public Welfare Department asked
Resolution · passed · 14 January 1952 ↗$75,000 for terminal tracks, with Market Street Railway paying rent
Ordinance · 5 July 1938 ↗$75,000 for streetcar tracks on First and Fremont streets
Ordinance · 20 June 1938 ↗Block between Market and Fremont Streets rezoned for downtown business
Ordinance · 20 September 1965 ↗Market Street Railway allowed buses from Fremont Street to Battery Street
Resolution · 25 November 1940 ↗80,000 circulars on charter amendments to be printed for voters
Resolution · 19 September 1910 ↗Parking changes on Howard, Taylor and Masonic, including Trader Joe's frontage
Resolution · 10 August 2004 ↗Tow-away zone on Judah Street and new turns on Folsom Street
Resolution · 31 October 1985 ↗Land taken near Bryant and First Streets, Fremont Street to close
Resolution · 28 May 1951 ↗Fremont Street closed for the war and given to Matson Navigation
Resolution · 18 May 1942 ↗
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