Taylor St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Taylor St, between 1907 and 2023, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about parking, oil tanks and boilers, taxis and garages.
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What keeps coming up
- Parking22Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- Oil tanks and boilers13Fuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.
- Taxis and garages11Taxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.
- PG&E and the utilities6The gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.
- Keeping horses and cows5Until about 1930 the Board voted on whether you could keep animals at your address.
- Buildings the city rents5Space the city leases from private owners, with the rent on the record.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2020s4Board takes up Andre-Boudin Bakeries' Chowder Hut lease on Taylor Street · 2020
- 2010s5$95M in housing bonds sought for 210 and 238 Taylor Street · 2016
- 2000s3$130,462.77 voted for the Pier 43 promenade from Powell to Taylor · 2008
- 1990s2Boy Scouts urged to end their ban on gay leaders · 1991
- 1980s1Sewer to be restored on Sacramento Street between Jones and Taylor · 1987
- 1970s3A. Sabella's Restaurant given a crab stand on Taylor Street · 1977
- 1950s3Mayor asked to seek an international exposition in San Francisco, 1962 · 1957
- 1940s3City land at Bay and Taylor Streets offered for sale · 1941
- 1930s15Board of Education lot at Vallejo and Taylor becomes a park · 1931
- 1920s38J. R. Ewing Jr. refused a parking lot on Taylor Street · 1928
- 1910s31Arabella Huntington gives her Nob Hill block for a park · 1915
- 1900s12Walter Linforth paid $80,000 for land at Bay and Taylor streets · 1909
The most notable decisions
Arabella Huntington gives her Nob Hill block for a park
Resolution · 15 March 1915 ↗Board of Education lot at Vallejo and Taylor becomes a park
Resolution · 26 January 1931 ↗Arabella Huntington's land at Sacramento and Taylor Streets dedicated as park
Resolution · 16 August 1915 ↗Mayor asked to seek an international exposition in San Francisco, 1962
Ordinance · 4 November 1957 ↗City land on Jefferson Street near Taylor to be leased
Ordinance · 1 March 1937 ↗Di Maggio & Company gets a ten-year lease on Jefferson Street
Ordinance · 21 December 1936 ↗Wm. D. Thompson gives the city a sewer right of way
Resolution · 17 July 1916 ↗Laguna Honda Home and the city hospital to switch to gas
Resolution · 3 November 1930 ↗Boy Scouts urged to end their ban on gay leaders
Resolution · 22 July 1991 ↗$15,000 for new gutter strips along Market Street downtown
Ordinance · 4 October 1937 ↗
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