Sutter St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Sutter St, between 1906 and 2016, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1900s; often about railroads and spur tracks, paving and grading, oil tanks and boilers.
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What keeps coming up
- Railroads and spur tracks28Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Paving and grading11Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Oil tanks and boilers9Fuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.
- Clinics and hospitals6Clinics, health centres and hospitals.
- Sewers5Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Streetcars and transit4Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2010s5$47.5M note for 135 flats at Westside Courts on Sutter Street · 2016
- 1980s6Bush and Scott Street property rezoned for small neighborhood shops · 1988
- 1970s6Buchanan and Sutter Streets rezoned for a three-story building with shops · 1977
- 1960s4$39,200 more to buy land for the Interior Green Belt · 1960
- 1950s6Lease of 2201 Sutter Street for the health center undone · 1955
- 1940s8Election of fifteen freeholders to rewrite the charter sent to committee · 1943
- 1930s3Sutter Street Railroad Company surrenders its franchises to the city · 1931
- 1920s10Market Street Railway allowed to give up part of its franchise · 1929
- 1910s22Tracks built on Market Street from Sutter Street to Geary Street · 1912
- 1900s50Sutter Street Railroad to run overhead trolleys on lower Market Street · 1908
The most notable decisions
Tracks built on Market Street from Sutter Street to Geary Street
Departmental work · 1912 ↗Sutter Street Railroad to run overhead trolleys on lower Market Street
Ordinance · 26 October 1908 ↗Sutter Street Railroad Company surrenders its franchises to the city
Resolution · 9 February 1931 ↗Arabella D. Huntington gives land for a park at Taylor Street
Ordinance · 15 March 1915 ↗$39,200 more to buy land for the Interior Green Belt
Ordinance · 11 July 1960 ↗$47.5M note for 135 flats at Westside Courts on Sutter Street
Resolution · 26 July 2016 ↗United Railroads would run Sutter Street cars to the city front
Ordinance · 28 March 1910 ↗Sutter Street Railway asks to run trolley cars on Market Street
Ordinance · 19 October 1908 ↗Lease of 2201 Sutter Street for the health center undone
Motion · 4 April 1955 ↗Election of fifteen freeholders to rewrite the charter sent to committee
Resolution · in progress · 1 February 1943 ↗
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