Powell St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Powell St, between 1906 and 2013, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about blasting permits, fire stations, parking.
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What keeps coming up
- Blasting permits13Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
- Fire stations12Engine houses and fire stations.
- Parking10Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- PG&E and the utilities10The gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.
- Oil tanks and boilers9Fuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.
- Streetcars and transit9Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2010s5$65,000 grant taken to redesign Jefferson Street from Powell to Hyde · 2011
- 2000s8Emporium developer to pay $16M toward affordable housing over thirty years · 2000
- 1990s2Left turns banned from Broadway into Powell Street at rush hour · 1991
- 1980s4Traffic signals to go in at Jefferson and Powell Streets · 1986
- 1970s3Powell Street between Eddy and Ellis became a pedestrian mall · 1974
- 1960s4Center-column mezzanines at Powell and Montgomery stations to be rejected · 1966
- 1950s4$311,500 for track work on Market, Powell, Washington and Jackson · 1951
- 1940s8$11,000 voted for street lighting around Union Square · 1942
- 1930s2$15,000 for new gutter strips along Market Street downtown · 1937
- 1920s33$224,802 set aside to build the Francisco School on Powell Street · 1923
- 1910s20A firehouse to be built on Powell Street near Broadway · 1915
- 1900s27G. B. Dondero paid $66,500 for North Beach playground land · 1908
The most notable decisions
Emporium developer to pay $16M toward affordable housing over thirty years
Ordinance · 23 August 2000 ↗$224,802 set aside to build the Francisco School on Powell Street
Resolution · 30 July 1923 ↗Hee Suey Law Jessie paid for Washington Street school land
Resolution · 2 January 1927 ↗A. Paladini's estate paid $11,050 for Francisco School land
Resolution · 24 September 1923 ↗North Star Brewing sells land for the Francisco School, $30,000
Resolution · 13 August 1923 ↗G. B. Dondero paid $66,500 for North Beach playground land
Resolution · 1 June 1908 ↗Annie Galloway sells the Jean Parker School land for $2,000
Resolution · 8 January 1908 ↗A firehouse to be built on Powell Street near Broadway
Ordinance · 10 May 1915 ↗Owners west of Powell Street ask for easier building rules
Motion · 16 March 1909 ↗Powell Street between Eddy and Ellis became a pedestrian mall
Departmental work · 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