Sansome St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Sansome St, between 1906 and 2006, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1900s; often about railroads and spur tracks, oil tanks and boilers, paving and grading.
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What keeps coming up
- Railroads and spur tracks18Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Oil tanks and boilers13Fuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.
- Paving and grading11Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Blasting permits9Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
- Sewers7Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Parking5Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2000s1Broadway and Sansome land to be sold for $1.5M · 2006
- 1980s4Commercial Street closed to cars for a pedestrian mall · 1987
- 1970s6Land on Washington Street to be taken for widening · 1972
- 1960s5Gloria Court north of Geneva Avenue to be improved with $3,200 · 1969
- 1950s3Less parking refused for property on Greenwich Street near Sansome · 1957
- 1940s5Merchants Ice and Cold Storage allowed a track on Greenwich Street · 1946
- 1930s4The $9,500 set aside to rebuild Broadway is taken back · 1931
- 1920s13Market Street being rebuilt from The Embarcadero to Sansome Street · 1922
- 1910s32Washington Irving School ordered built on Broadway west of Sansome Street · 1913
- 1900s47Fire house approved on Pacific Street for $23,000 · 1908
The most notable decisions
Washington Irving School ordered built on Broadway west of Sansome Street
Ordinance · 13 May 1913 ↗City buys land for the Washington Irving School for $5,375
Resolution · 3 March 1913 ↗City pays Mario Perasso $10,750 for Washington Irving School land
Resolution · 6 January 1913 ↗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 ↗Blasting limited to the hours between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m.
Ordinance · 3 June 1912 ↗Commercial Street closed to cars for a pedestrian mall
Ordinance · 4 May 1987 ↗Land on Washington Street to be taken for widening
Resolution · 31 January 1972 ↗Sansome Street sidewalks to be reduced in width
Ordinance · 13 December 1906 ↗
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