Union
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Union, between 1908 and 2025, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 2000s; often about parking, environmental review, police stations.
What keeps coming up
- Parking23Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- Environmental review6Nothing before the 1970s, then permanent: the review law arriving and staying.
- Police stations5Police stations and the sites bought for them.
- Theatres and shows4Theatres, cinemas and travelling shows.
- Hotels and rooming houses4Hotels and rooming houses, concentrated in a handful of neighbourhoods.
- PG&E and the utilities3The gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2020s9$3.0M shifted from free downtown parking to neighborhood arts events · 2024
- 2010s2Union Square garage and cafe lease sent to committee · 2016
- 2000s54Emporium developer to pay $16M toward affordable housing over thirty years · 2000
- 1990s22Caltrans urged to put passenger rail on a rebuilt Bay Bridge · 1998
- 1980s6$50,000 moved from Balboa Stadium lights to Union Square ventilation · 1982
- 1960s2Height limits proposed at Jackson Square, Civic Center and Union Square · 1964
- 1950s2Bigger allowances for police officers sent to the Judiciary Committee · 1955
- 1940s14Union Square Garage stock accepted and put in trust · 1944
- 1930s4Chief of Police to set taxi stands, none around Union Square · 1937
- 1920s2Haas Bros. and Wm. Cluff win the city's canned fruit contracts · 1923
- 1900s3Board of Public Works to report on a Union Place building · 1909
The most notable decisions
Emporium developer to pay $16M toward affordable housing over thirty years
Ordinance · 23 August 2000 ↗Caltrans urged to put passenger rail on a rebuilt Bay Bridge
Resolution · 21 December 1998 ↗Union Square Garage stock accepted and put in trust
Resolution · 11 December 1944 ↗Five more years of Union Square business district assessments
Resolution · 16 December 2003 ↗Union Square business district renewal with five more years of assessments
Resolution · 4 November 2003 ↗Chief of Police to set taxi stands, none around Union Square
Ordinance · 21 June 1937 ↗$3.0M shifted from free downtown parking to neighborhood arts events
Ordinance · 16 July 2024 ↗City takes the hundred shares of Union Square Garage common stock
Resolution · 23 April 1945 ↗New rules on no-bid contracts sent to committee
Ordinance · in progress · 22 July 2003 ↗Height limits proposed at Jackson Square, Civic Center and Union Square
Ordinance · proposed · 10 August 1964 ↗
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