Spear St
88 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Spear St, between 1907 and 2016, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about railroads and spur tracks, parking, environmental review.
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What keeps coming up
- Railroads and spur tracks20Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Parking9Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- Environmental review4Nothing before the 1970s, then permanent: the review law arriving and staying.
- Oil tanks and boilers3Fuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.
- Streetcars and transit3Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- Streets closed for a day3Parades, street fairs, block parties, ground-breakings, festivals.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2010s6Four street artist selling spaces proposed on Market Street · 2016
- 2000s11Sidewalk widths to change on Market, Main and Spear Streets · 2006
- 1990s4Sidewalk width changed on Spear Street between Mission and Market · 1994
- 1980s7Koll Construction allowed to occupy Steuart or Spear Street while building · 1989
- 1970s3Special permission refused for 43 Main Street and 38-68 Spear Street · 1977
- 1960s3Sidewalk and roadway at Spear and Mission Streets, adopted · 1966
- 1950s2Market Street Railway pays the city $383.02 to settle a claim · 1950
- 1930s1Jim Hunnicutt allowed a parking station on Spear Street · 1930
- 1920s9$400 set aside for a signal tower at Market and Spear · 1920
- 1910s30$5,000 for a Market Street track crossover near Spear Street · 1918
- 1900s12Spur track rules set for freight cars and connecting railways · 1907
The most notable decisions
Spur track rules set for freight cars and connecting railways
Ordinance · 27 January 1907 ↗Sidewalk widths to change on Market, Main and Spear Streets
Ordinance · 24 January 2006 ↗Sidewalk and roadway at Spear and Mission Streets, adopted
Resolution · passed · 18 April 1966 ↗$5,000 for a Market Street track crossover near Spear Street
Resolution · 13 May 1918 ↗Sidewalk width changed on the southerly side of Turk Street
Ordinance · 17 January 2006 ↗Sidewalk width changed on Spear Street between Mission and Market
Ordinance · 4 April 1994 ↗Spear Street sidewalks to be fifteen feet wide
Ordinance · 4 March 1918 ↗Sidewalks on Spear Street set at fifteen feet
Ordinance · 2 November 1914 ↗Angle parking adopted for Chestnut Street and Spear Street
Resolution · passed · 17 February 1969 ↗United Railroads paid $2,877.01 for half the Embarcadero rail loop
Resolution · 20 May 1918 ↗
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