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Spruce St

32 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Spruce St, between 1921 and 2018, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about blasting permits, the rules for this street changed, parking.

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What keeps coming up

  • Blasting permits5Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
  • The rules for this street changed4Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.
  • Parking3Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
  • Sewers2Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
  • Parks and playgrounds2Playgrounds and recreation grounds.
  • War and the military2The military in the city, and what the wars did to it.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2010s2
    Julius Kahn's name urged off the Spruce Street playground · 2018
  2. 1990s3
    Emergency repair of the Spruce Street sewer adopted · 1998
  3. 1980s4
    Jordan Park permit parking extended to part of Spruce Street · 1988
  4. 1970s3
    Heavy vehicles banned from Mayfair Drive, Laurel and Spruce Streets · 1979
  5. 1950s3
    City land at Alemany Boulevard and Chester Avenue to be auctioned · 1953
  6. 1940s6
    Land to be acquired at Marino Vista Park, San Mateo County · 1947
  7. 1920s11
    North side of Washington Street opened to two-family housing · 1921

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