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Shotwell St

81 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Shotwell St, between 1906 and 2013, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about parking, taxis and garages, streets closed for a day.

Open Shotwell St on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

  • Parking11Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
  • Taxis and garages6Taxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.
  • Streets closed for a day5Parades, street fairs, block parties, ground-breakings, festivals.
  • Schools4School sites bought, built and repaired.
  • Clinics and hospitals4Clinics, health centres and hospitals.
  • PG&E and the utilities4The gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2010s1
    Top of Broadway business improvement district sent to committee · 2013
  2. 2000s6
    Permit parking hours to change on 20th and Laguna Streets · 2000
  3. 1990s6
    Residential parking permits extended to 22nd and Shotwell Streets · 1998
  4. 1980s7
    Residential parking permit area widened around Shotwell Street · 1984
  5. 1970s2
    577 Shotwell Street rezoned for shops · 1970
  6. 1960s6
    Ellsworth and Anderson Streets made one-way in opposite directions. · 1968
  7. 1950s1
    $130,000 paid Clement Chappaz for the St. Mary's Square garage site · 1951
  8. 1940s6
    Sidewalks on Mississippi Street set at twenty-two feet wide · 1943
  9. 1930s1
    City to buy a corner strip at Aztec and Shotwell Streets · 1938
  10. 1920s17
    Le Clair paid for Edison School land on Shotwell Street · 1925
  11. 1910s21
    Blasting allowed only between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. · 1912
  12. 1900s7
    New York Malt House allowed a 70 horsepower boiler on Shotwell · 1909

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