Howard St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Howard St, between 1906 and 2022, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1930s; often about sewers, clinics and hospitals, railroads and spur tracks.
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What keeps coming up
- Sewers17Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Clinics and hospitals12Clinics, health centres and hospitals.
- Railroads and spur tracks8Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Streetcars and transit7Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- PG&E and the utilities7The gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.
- Schools6School sites bought, built and repaired.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2020s3City takes over new streets built by the 5M project · 2022
- 2010s9$4.6M for sixteen affordable flats at 1500 Page Street approved · 2014
- 2000s3Moscone Convention Center bonds to be refinanced by the Redevelopment Agency · 2002
- 1990s4WEBCOR Builders to repair Fire Station No. 1 on Howard Street · 1999
- 1980s1Jim Dine's Howard Street Venus statue given by Convention Plaza · 1989
- 1970s2Board sets aside $2.7M to move the Howard Street sewer · 1972
- 1940s9$34,345 shifted to staff public health clinics · 1941
- 1930s34$228,000 for a trolley bus line from Beale to Army Street · 1939
- 1920s16A. Guthrie & Co. paid $47,805.47 for Hetch Hetchy aqueduct tunnels · 1927
- 1910s15$265,000 set aside to build and equip three new schools · 1910
- 1900s24C. S. Harney paid for basalt blocks for Howard Street repairs · 1907
The most notable decisions
$228,000 for a trolley bus line from Beale to Army Street
Ordinance · 14 February 1939 ↗$265,000 set aside to build and equip three new schools
Resolution · 9 May 1910 ↗$34,345 shifted to staff public health clinics
Ordinance · 15 September 1941 ↗Payment approved for land needed for school purposes
Resolution · passed · 13 July 1931 ↗$4.6M for sixteen affordable flats at 1500 Page Street approved
Resolution · passed · 13 May 2014 ↗Trolley bus line proposed from Beale Street to Army Street
Ordinance · proposed · 28 August 1939 ↗A. Guthrie & Co. paid $47,805.47 for Hetch Hetchy aqueduct tunnels
Resolution · 13 July 1927 ↗O'Callaghan land bought for $74,419 to extend Van Ness Avenue
Resolution · 31 August 1931 ↗$25,350 to Albertine Orella for land to extend Van Ness Avenue
Resolution · 13 July 1931 ↗$5,231.56 to Michael O'Connor for land to extend Van Ness Avenue
Resolution · 13 July 1931 ↗
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