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120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Mary, between 1908 and 2022, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about parking, parks and playgrounds, railroads and spur tracks.

What keeps coming up

  • Parking27Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
  • Parks and playgrounds17Playgrounds and recreation grounds.
  • Railroads and spur tracks5Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • The rules for this street changed4Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.
  • Sewers3Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
  • Clinics and hospitals3Clinics, health centres and hospitals.

Decade by decade

Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.

  1. 2020s2
    IMCO Parking's city garage contract raised to $45.7M · 2022
  2. 2010s1
    Comfort Women memorial offered to the city for St. Mary's Square · 2017
  3. 2000s3
    Drinking to need a permit at Washington Square and other parks · 2000
  4. 1990s25
    Parking Concepts to run the St. Mary's Square and Hoff garages · 1997
  5. 1980s2
    St. Mary's Square Garage shop space awarded to the highest bidder · 1986
  6. 1950s16
    Board buys land for the St. Mary's Square garage despite objections · 1951
  7. 1940s9
    $1,500 paid to W. S. Hutchison for St. Mary's Park Playground · 1945
  8. 1930s17
    $200,000 playgrounds bond put to the voters February sixth · 1931
  9. 1920s16
    Anderson & Ringrose paid $17,070 for the Marina Elementary School · 1929
  10. 1910s9
    Board passes the fifth bond ordinance for the new railway · 1910
  11. 1900s20
    Mary Trobock paid $7,500 for land for St. Mary's Square · 1909

The most notable decisions

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