Front St
103 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Front St, between 1907 and 2017, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about railroads and spur tracks, parking, paving and grading.
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What keeps coming up
- Railroads and spur tracks20Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Parking11Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- Paving and grading6Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Oil tanks and boilers5Fuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.
- Streetcars and transit3Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- Housing bonds3How affordable housing is paid for, in the years since the 1980s.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2010s2Rewritten night construction noise rules sent back to committee · 2017
- 2000s9Chinatown Community Development Center to build affordable housing on Broadway · 2003
- 1980s7Embarcadero Center owners to help pay for three midblock crossings · 1985
- 1970s4Crosswalk on Clay Street at Front Street to go · 1973
- 1960s6Sewer under Front Street replaced with a concrete one. · 1969
- 1950s1Grove Street to be closed and covered by canvas in 1954 · 1953
- 1940s2Market Street Railway allowed buses from Fremont Street to Battery Street · 1940
- 1930s9Front Street west sidewalk set between Union Street and The Embarcadero · 1936
- 1920s20Sidewalks on Washington Street set at ten feet, owners pay · 1925
- 1910s27S. Nathan leases city land on Jackson Street · 1913
- 1900s16Money set aside to pave Pine Street and Bryant Street · 1908
The most notable decisions
Chinatown Community Development Center to build affordable housing on Broadway
Resolution · 23 September 2003 ↗Market Street Railway allowed buses from Fremont Street to Battery Street
Resolution · 25 November 1940 ↗Three-year parking lease for Priority Parking on the Embarcadero seawall lots
Resolution · 10 November 2009 ↗S. Nathan leases city land on Jackson Street
Ordinance · 7 April 1913 ↗S. Nathan to lease city land on Jackson Street
Ordinance · 31 March 1913 ↗Money set aside to pave Pine Street and Bryant Street
Resolution · 2 November 1908 ↗Mission High School made a city landmark
Ordinance · 30 January 2007 ↗Front Street west sidewalk set between Union Street and The Embarcadero
Ordinance · 9 March 1936 ↗Front Street loses its east sidewalk between Broadway and Vallejo
Ordinance · 9 March 1936 ↗New sidewalk rule written for the west side of Front Street
Ordinance · 17 February 1936 ↗
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