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Oak St

62 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Oak St, between 1907 and 2012, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about parking, environmental review, permission to open something.

Open Oak St on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

  • Parking14Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
  • Environmental review9Nothing before the 1970s, then permanent: the review law arriving and staying.
  • Permission to open something6A shop, a clinic, a wrecking yard, a dispensary: uses that needed asking for.
  • Taxis and garages5Taxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.
  • Streetcars and transit5Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
  • Schools5School sites bought, built and repaired.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2010s3
    Fell and Oak Streets bike lanes need no environmental review · 2012
  2. 2000s15
    Bike lane established on Scott Street between Haight and Oak · 2006
  3. 1990s3
    No right turn on red at Gough and Oak Streets · 1999
  4. 1980s1
    Emergency sewer repair authorized on Pierce Street between Oak and Fell · 1988
  5. 1970s4
    Planning Commission overruled on the 1052-62 Oak Street rezoning · 1977
  6. 1960s2
    Stopping banned at some hours on Duboce Avenue and Oak Street · 1962
  7. 1950s3
    Turn rules adopted for Divisadero and Masonic at Fell and Oak · 1959
  8. 1940s3
    Bonds sought for a Broadway tunnel and other street work · 1947
  9. 1930s3
    Market Street Railway to lift Army Street tracks for a widening · 1935
  10. 1920s12
    $313,873 to build the Hearst-Moulder School at Webster and Page · 1926
  11. 1910s7
    $4,000 more set aside for sewers on Oak and Stanyan streets · 1912
  12. 1900s6
    German Cooperage allowed a four horsepower boiler on Oak Street · 1909

The most notable decisions

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