Main St
87 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Main St, between 1906 and 2026, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about parking, taxis and garages, pg&e and the utilities.
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What keeps coming up
- Parking9Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- Taxis and garages6Taxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.
- PG&E and the utilities6The gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.
- Railroads and spur tracks5Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- The rules for this street changed5Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.
- Schools4School sites bought, built and repaired.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2020s7$50,000 paid for a water pipeline easement in Sunol · 2024
- 2010s1Downtown block sold to Tishman Speyer for affordable for-sale housing · 2016
- 2000s14Sidewalk widths to change on Market, Main and Spear Streets · 2006
- 1990s4Bus and carpool lanes set on Bryant Street near The Embarcadero · 1994
- 1980s1Pacific Gateway Associates to help pay for Mission Street pedestrian signals · 1980
- 1970s4Stop signs voted for Main, Bryant and Collingwood Streets · 1978
- 1960s4Land at Jones and North Point Streets rezoned for shops · 1964
- 1940s10Alameda County given an easement for a bridge on Bond Street · 1947
- 1930s4Permit granted for premises on Main Street south of Market Street · 1931
- 1920s20Charles H. Brennan asks for a forty-year toll bridge to Alameda · 1925
- 1910s16Stone sidewalks ordered on Howard Street between Spear and Main · 1916
- 1900s2Building Trades Council presses for W. C. Talbot's mill permit · 1906
The most notable decisions
Downtown block sold to Tishman Speyer for affordable for-sale housing
Resolution · 26 July 2016 ↗Charles H. Brennan asks for a forty-year toll bridge to Alameda
Resolution · 23 March 1925 ↗$50,000 paid for a water pipeline easement in Sunol
Resolution · 5 November 2024 ↗Sidewalk widths to change on Market, Main and Spear Streets
Ordinance · 24 January 2006 ↗Land at Jones and North Point Streets rezoned for shops
Ordinance · 29 June 1964 ↗Bus and carpool lanes set on Bryant Street near The Embarcadero
Resolution · 12 December 1994 ↗Stone sidewalks ordered on Howard Street between Spear and Main
Ordinance · 24 April 1916 ↗Rules adopted for Mission Street and Main Street near Beale.
Resolution · passed · 15 April 1968 ↗Backing for the Revitalizing Downtowns and Main Streets Act introduced
Resolution · 14 April 2026 ↗Sidewalk widths reset along the Embarcadero corridor
Ordinance · 13 October 1992 ↗
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