Redwood St
45 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Redwood St, between 1910 and 2025, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about land bought and sold, parking, schools.
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What keeps coming up
- Land bought and sold7Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.
- Parking5Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- Schools4School sites bought, built and repaired.
- Environmental review3Nothing before the 1970s, then permanent: the review law arriving and staying.
- Streets closed for good2Streets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.
- Fire stations2Engine houses and fire stations.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2020s1Letting chain stores open on Van Ness Avenue sent to committee · 2025
- 2010s1Smarte Carte to run luggage carts at the Airport · 2012
- 2000s3Turn rules on Plymouth Avenue and Polk Street sent to committee · 2004
- 1990s4Weekday parking limits on Redwood Street passed on first reading · 1998
- 1980s6Sidewalk width to be changed on Redwood Street near Franklin Street · 1986
- 1970s2Byington, Folger Alley, Redwood and Ash Streets closed for good · 1970
- 1950s5Arthur O. Paulson sells land for $100 to widen Market Street · 1957
- 1940s3Land on McAllister Street to be taken for railway offices · 1945
- 1930s2City lot at Polk and McAllister Streets put up for lease · 1934
- 1920s10City moves to take land near Gough Street for a school · 1923
- 1910s8Lange Investment Co. sells McAllister Street land for the Civic Center · 1912
The most notable decisions
Lange Investment Co. sells McAllister Street land for the Civic Center
Resolution · 7 October 1912 ↗Fire engine house moved from McAllister Street to Polk Street
Ordinance · 6 January 1913 ↗Fire engine house to move from McAllister Street to Polk Street
Ordinance · 23 December 1912 ↗City moves to take land near Gough Street for a school
Resolution · 4 June 1923 ↗Arthur O. Paulson sells land for $100 to widen Market Street
Motion · 24 June 1957 ↗Land on McAllister Street to be taken for railway offices
Resolution · 23 April 1945 ↗City land at Polk and McAllister Streets to be leased out
Ordinance · 8 May 1944 ↗Redwood Street to be extended west to Buchanan Street
Resolution · 17 June 1929 ↗Redwood Street extension to Buchanan Street finally ordered
Resolution · 17 June 1929 ↗City pays Isaack Kohn $107,500 for land at Larkin and McAllister
Resolution · 13 January 1913 ↗
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