Turk St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Turk St, between 1906 and 2020, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about parking, streetcars and transit, environmental review.
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What keeps coming up
- Parking10Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- Streetcars and transit7Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- Environmental review7Nothing before the 1970s, then permanent: the review law arriving and staying.
- Oil tanks and boilers6Fuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.
- Parks and playgrounds6Playgrounds and recreation grounds.
- Housing bonds5How affordable housing is paid for, in the years since the 1980s.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2020s1$20M state award accepted for housing at 500 Turk Street · 2020
- 2010s1099-year lease at 1555 Turk Street keeps 52 affordable flats · 2016
- 2000s8$700,000 grant sought for a computer learning center on Turk Street · 2001
- 1990s5$1.5M for the 911 project, two Turk Street projects dropped · 1994
- 1980s1Federal funds sought for signals at Franklin and Fell Streets · 1984
- 1970s5$30,000 voted to fix up the Municipal Railway's Turk Street building · 1978
- 1950s2State to repay $13,000 for lines moved for the Central Freeway · 1957
- 1940s16School site at Masonic Avenue and Turk Street bought for $86,500 · 1946
- 1930s15Roman Catholic Archbishop paid $12,500 for land to widen Turk Street · 1932
- 1920s24Voters to decide on $4.6M in Municipal Railway extension bonds · 1927
- 1910s25Amended plans approved for Geary Street Railway track construction · 1912
- 1900s8Mrs. Charlotte Clark allowed an oil tank on Turk Street · 1907
The most notable decisions
Voters to decide on $4.6M in Municipal Railway extension bonds
Ordinance · 3 October 1927 ↗$1.5M for the 911 project, two Turk Street projects dropped
Ordinance · 14 March 1994 ↗School site at Masonic Avenue and Turk Street bought for $86,500
Resolution · 13 May 1946 ↗$20M state award accepted for housing at 500 Turk Street
Resolution · 25 February 2020 ↗99-year lease at 1555 Turk Street keeps 52 affordable flats
Resolution · 26 April 2016 ↗Amended plans approved for Geary Street Railway track construction
Resolution · passed · 25 March 1912 ↗$700,000 grant sought for a computer learning center on Turk Street
Resolution · proposed · 19 June 2001 ↗$55,000 moved from Turk Street to widen Third Street
Ordinance · 4 August 1941 ↗$55,000 from Turk Street widening switched to Third Street instead
Motion · 30 June 1941 ↗Roman Catholic Archbishop paid $12,500 for land to widen Turk Street
Resolution · 18 April 1932 ↗
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