Greenwich St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Greenwich St, between 1907 and 2016, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about paving and grading, railroads and spur tracks, schools.
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What keeps coming up
- Paving and grading10Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Railroads and spur tracks9Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Schools6School sites bought, built and repaired.
- Clinics and hospitals6Clinics, health centres and hospitals.
- Sewers5Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Parking5Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2010s4Greenwich Street strip by Coit Tower to join Pioneer Park · 2016
- 1990s1Parking banned on Culebra Terrace and stretches of Chestnut and Greenwich · 1990
- 1980s9Housing conversion freeze between Greenwich and Bush sent to committee · 1985
- 1960s3Greenwich Street to be improved with about $24,000 in city aid · 1966
- 1950s4Supervisor Arnold moves $237,113.19 for Joint Highway District No. 10 · 1955
- 1940s9Buildings capped at eighty-four feet near the northern waterfront · 1946
- 1930s14Buildings capped at 290 feet between Greenwich and Union streets · 1932
- 1920s24Fannie R. Frisbie paid $4,100 for Garfield School land on Greenwich · 1921
- 1910s34Greenwich Street lot bought for $4,500 for the Cooper School · 1914
- 1900s18McEwen Bros. land bought for $17,000 for the Yerba Buena School · 1909
The most notable decisions
Fannie R. Frisbie paid $4,100 for Garfield School land on Greenwich
Resolution · 5 December 1921 ↗Greenwich Street lot bought for $4,500 for the Cooper School
Resolution · 12 February 1914 ↗City pays St. Peter's Episcopal Church $13,550 for Cooper School land
Resolution · 20 January 1913 ↗McEwen Bros. land bought for $17,000 for the Yerba Buena School
Resolution · 23 February 1909 ↗Chas. Huth paid $750 for land at the Lafayette School site
Resolution · 2 November 1908 ↗G. B. Dondero paid $66,500 for North Beach playground land
Resolution · 1 June 1908 ↗Voters approved a children's playground block at North Beach
Resolution · passed · 9 December 1907 ↗Buildings capped at eighty-four feet near the northern waterfront
Ordinance · 8 April 1946 ↗Fire engine house ordered on Stockton Street for $30,000
Ordinance · 22 April 1912 ↗$4,000 voted for the North Beach-Marina Health Center on Steiner Street
Ordinance · 19 December 1949 ↗
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