Grant Ave
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Grant Ave, between 1907 and 2019, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about the rules for this street changed, oil tanks and boilers, paving and grading.
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What keeps coming up
- The rules for this street changed14Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.
- Oil tanks and boilers7Fuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.
- Paving and grading7Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Railroads and spur tracks5Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Blasting permits3Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
- Sewers3Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2010s2Beer and wine licence refused for the Museum of Ice Cream · 2019
- 2000s5Grant Avenue flower stand permit sale finally passed · 2006
- 1990s2Claim settled for $18,168 sent to committee · 1995
- 1980s27Height and bulk limits to change near the Chinese Playground · 1984
- 1970s2Rothschild & Raffin may occupy Grant Avenue during Embarcadero Triangle construction · 1972
- 1960s3South of Market study area held for the Assessor's report · 1963
- 1950s2Whiting Street east of Grant Avenue to be improved · 1953
- 1940s10Buildings between Grant Avenue and the Embarcadero limited to sixty feet · 1945
- 1930s21Buildings capped at 290 feet between Greenwich and Union streets · 1932
- 1920s16$1,709.55 for beacon posts on the Market Street safety islands · 1929
- 1910s12California Special Messenger Company told to take down its overhead wires · 1914
- 1900s18Barber Asphalt Paving Co. paid $2,724.24 for Market Street repairs · 1909
The most notable decisions
Buildings between Grant Avenue and the Embarcadero limited to sixty feet
Ordinance · 29 January 1945 ↗Height and bulk limits to change near the Chinese Playground
Ordinance · 5 December 1984 ↗Buildings capped at eighty-four feet near the northern waterfront
Ordinance · 8 April 1946 ↗Buildings capped at 290 feet between Greenwich and Union streets
Ordinance · 20 June 1932 ↗Freeze on new banks near Grant Avenue to be extended
Ordinance · 14 January 1985 ↗Twelve-month ban on new banks around Grant Avenue and Broadway
Ordinance · 7 February 1983 ↗Bonds proposed to cut Fifth Street through Market Street
Resolution · proposed · 12 April 1937 ↗New banks would be barred in the blocks off Mason Street
Ordinance · 24 June 1985 ↗Ban on new banks proposed between Mason Street and Grant Avenue
Ordinance · proposed · 22 December 1986 ↗Year-long freeze proposed on new banks near Grant Avenue and Broadway
Ordinance · proposed · 5 December 1984 ↗
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