Pacific
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.
- 2010s2Seawall Lot 351 to be traded to San Francisco Waterfront Partners · 2012
- 2000s2Pacific Park Management to run the North Beach and Vallejo garages · 2001
- 1990s2Pacific Park Management confirmed to run the Lombard Street Garage · 1996
- 1960s2Bond money allotted to rebuild fire houses and headquarters · 1965
- 1950s2Northeast Health Center leases 799 Pacific Street from the Housing Authority · 1956
- 1940s1Parking banned at set hours on Seventh and Pacific Streets · 1943
- 1930s2Appeal fails and the Bernal Cut rezoning stays refused · 1938
- 1920s19$14,400 for Larkin Street work between Pacific and Union cancelled · 1927
- 1910s32Gideon H. Smith's land accepted for a sewer near Santiago Street · 1917
- 1900s24Fire house approved on Pacific Street for $23,000 · 1908
The most notable decisions
Bond money allotted to rebuild fire houses and headquarters
Ordinance · 26 April 1965 ↗Fire house approved on Pacific Street for $23,000
Ordinance · passed · 8 September 1908 ↗Fire house approved on O'Farrell Street for $27,500
Ordinance · passed · 8 September 1908 ↗New fire house to be built on O'Farrell Street for $27,500
Ordinance · 17 August 1908 ↗$200 to Giovanni Taleri for land required for Fire Department purposes
Resolution · 13 December 1906 ↗Northeast Health Center leases 799 Pacific Street from the Housing Authority
Resolution · 6 August 1956 ↗Northeast Health Center to rent ground floor at 799 Pacific Street
Resolution · 29 July 1957 ↗Diamond Heights and Stockton Street engine houses put back, second reading
Ordinance · 19 April 1965 ↗Gideon H. Smith's land accepted for a sewer near Santiago Street
Resolution · 10 December 1917 ↗City to lease its land on Pacific Street near Jones Street
Ordinance · 1 June 1915 ↗
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