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Octavia St

118 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Octavia St, between 1907 and 2017, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about parking, the rules for this street changed, permission to open something.

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What keeps coming up

  • Parking9Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
  • The rules for this street changed9Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.
  • Permission to open something8A shop, a clinic, a wrecking yard, a dispensary: uses that needed asking for.
  • PG&E and the utilities6The gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.
  • Blasting permits5Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
  • Environmental review5Nothing before the 1970s, then permanent: the review law arriving and staying.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2010s4
    Subdivision map approved for 47 flats at 8 Octavia Street · 2014
  2. 2000s9
    Open source voting software urged for the 2008 general election · 2007
  3. 1990s10
    Wires go underground on Octavia Street · 1999
  4. 1980s6
    Blocks near Franklin Street added to the Hayes Gough special district · 1983
  5. 1970s4
    Octavia Street sidewalk south of Bush Street to be widened · 1972
  6. 1960s4
    Eichler Homes gives land free to move Octavia Street · 1962
  7. 1950s8
    Stop signs adopted for Broadway traffic at Buchanan and Octavia · 1959
  8. 1940s4
    $100,000 for Water Department mains and new subdivision extensions · 1941
  9. 1930s12
    Broadway sidewalks set at eleven feet between Octavia and Fillmore · 1930
  10. 1920s34
    Sidewalks on Broadway set at eleven feet near Van Ness · 1929
  11. 1910s13
    Centenary Methodist Church paid $22,000 for land for Lowell High School · 1912
  12. 1900s10
    City takes over new roadways at Sixteenth and Alabama Streets · 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