Jefferson St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Jefferson St, between 1906 and 2026, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about pg&e and the utilities, railroads and spur tracks, buildings the city rents.
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What keeps coming up
- PG&E and the utilities16The gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.
- Railroads and spur tracks10Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Buildings the city rents8Space the city leases from private owners, with the rent on the record.
- Paving and grading5Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Parking4Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- Schools4School sites bought, built and repaired.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2020s3Dylan's Tours gets 490 Jefferson Street space at $72,000 a year · 2026
- 2010s13Board to back a citywide health information exchange · 2011
- 2000s2$30,000 study of a Jefferson Street redesign sent to committee · 2008
- 1990s6H&N Fish Company to get a ten-year lease at Pier 45 · 1995
- 1980s3Jefferson Street to close, with fire access to the Wharf kept · 1987
- 1970s2A. Sabella's Restaurant given a crab stand on Taylor Street · 1977
- 1960s1Streets closed for a carnival, street fairs and a Philippine celebration · 1969
- 1940s8City land on Jefferson Street near Taylor to be leased out · 1946
- 1930s12Land bought from California Packing Corporation for Aquatic Park, $23,581.36 · 1939
- 1920s27Albert R. Herman paid $11,625 for Palace of Fine Arts land · 1927
- 1910s35James Otis paid $38,000 for land taken for the aquatic park · 1919
- 1900s8Sewers ordered on Lombard Street from Octavia to Laguna for $55,000 · 1909
The most notable decisions
Land bought from California Packing Corporation for Aquatic Park, $23,581.36
Resolution · 4 December 1939 ↗Albert R. Herman paid $11,625 for Palace of Fine Arts land
Resolution · 25 July 1927 ↗Jefferson and Lyon land bought for the Palace of Fine Arts
Resolution · 18 July 1927 ↗James Otis paid $38,000 for land taken for the aquatic park
Resolution · 8 December 1919 ↗James Otis paid $38,000 for a second aquatic park lot
Resolution · 8 December 1919 ↗$38,000 to go to James Otis for aquatic park land
Resolution · 24 November 1919 ↗$165,000 paid to James Irvine for Civic Center land
Resolution · 28 July 1919 ↗Board to back a citywide health information exchange
Resolution · 2011 ↗Bus service proposed along The Embarcadero from Channel to Jefferson streets
Ordinance · proposed · 9 February 1925 ↗Health Information Exchange for San Francisco backed
Resolution · 26 April 2011 ↗
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