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88 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Pacific, between 1906 and 2012, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about taxis and garages, fire stations, railroads and spur tracks.

What keeps coming up

  • Taxis and garages11Taxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.
  • Fire stations9Engine houses and fire stations.
  • Railroads and spur tracks8Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Oil tanks and boilers6Fuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.
  • Laundries6Laundries needed the Board's permission, and their neighbours sometimes objected.
  • Keeping horses and cows5Until about 1930 the Board voted on whether you could keep animals at your address.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2010s2
    Seawall Lot 351 to be traded to San Francisco Waterfront Partners · 2012
  2. 2000s2
    Pacific Park Management to run the North Beach and Vallejo garages · 2001
  3. 1990s2
    Pacific Park Management confirmed to run the Lombard Street Garage · 1996
  4. 1960s2
    Bond money allotted to rebuild fire houses and headquarters · 1965
  5. 1950s2
    Northeast Health Center leases 799 Pacific Street from the Housing Authority · 1956
  6. 1940s1
    Parking banned at set hours on Seventh and Pacific Streets · 1943
  7. 1930s2
    Appeal fails and the Bernal Cut rezoning stays refused · 1938
  8. 1920s19
    $14,400 for Larkin Street work between Pacific and Union cancelled · 1927
  9. 1910s32
    Gideon H. Smith's land accepted for a sewer near Santiago Street · 1917
  10. 1900s24
    Fire house approved on Pacific Street for $23,000 · 1908

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