Montgomery St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Montgomery St, between 1906 and 2011, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about the rules for this street changed, blasting permits, streets closed for good.
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What keeps coming up
- The rules for this street changed21Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.
- Blasting permits13Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
- Streets closed for good7Streets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.
- Paving and grading6Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Oil tanks and boilers5Fuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.
- Railroads and spur tracks5Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2010s1Findings sought for rejecting the 1621 Montgomery Street parcel map · 2011
- 2000s1Asks on claims costs, parking meters and the Belli Building · 2000
- 1990s2Support for more Caltrain service sent to committee · 1991
- 1980s5Chinatown limits proposed on new banks and lost homes · 1984
- 1970s12Montgomery Street sidewalks set at twelve feet near Chestnut Street · 1974
- 1960s6Center-column mezzanines at Powell and Montgomery stations to be rejected · 1966
- 1950s18Supervisor Lewis asks that the Shoppers' Special serve the financial district · 1953
- 1940s2Nursery school society buys Union Street school land for $40,000 · 1948
- 1930s9$2.4M listed for structural improvements including the Bernal Cut · 1931
- 1920s19Dumping oil and grease on streets or into sewers banned · 1929
- 1910s16Sharon Estate Company's temporary City Hall accepted at $5,000 a month · 1910
- 1900s29Henning & Burke paid $3,677.85 for the temporary Lafayette School · 1909
The most notable decisions
Dumping oil and grease on streets or into sewers banned
Ordinance · 25 February 1929 ↗Henning & Burke paid $3,677.85 for the temporary Lafayette School
Resolution · 11 March 1909 ↗$2.4M listed for structural improvements including the Bernal Cut
Ordinance · 28 December 1931 ↗Italian Hospital allowed to build on Broadway near Van Ness Avenue
Resolution · 2 May 1927 ↗Sharon Estate Company's temporary City Hall accepted at $5,000 a month
Resolution · 17 October 1910 ↗Chinatown limits proposed on new banks and lost homes
Resolution · proposed · 5 November 1984 ↗Chinatown limits on new banks and lost homes sent to committee
Resolution · in progress · 15 October 1984 ↗$165,000 of boulevard bond money allotted for Leavenworth Street land
Ordinance · 6 January 1932 ↗Money set aside for plans for four new school buildings
Resolution · 10 May 1909 ↗Montgomery Street sidewalks set at twelve feet near Chestnut Street
Ordinance · 3 June 1974 ↗
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