Union St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Union St, between 1906 and 2018, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about streetcars and transit, the rules for this street changed, permission to open something.
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What keeps coming up
- Streetcars and transit18Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- The rules for this street changed17Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.
- Permission to open something15A shop, a clinic, a wrecking yard, a dispensary: uses that needed asking for.
- Railroads and spur tracks12Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Paving and grading8Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Sewers8Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2010s7Smoking ban at outdoor city events sent to committee · 2012
- 2000s6$885,127 passed for the summer food and after-school snack programs · 2009
- 1990s7Unsafe-building complaints to get set deadlines and a right of appeal · 1994
- 1980s19Neighborhood shopping streets across the city would be rezoned · 1985
- 1970s5Freeze on new Union Street bars and restaurants extended · 1979
- 1960s2Taft Ming Quan allowed brick planters at 888-898 Union Street · 1962
- 1950s3Supervisor Arnold moves $237,113.19 for Joint Highway District No. 10 · 1955
- 1940s4New height limits proposed for buildings on Telegraph Hill · 1941
- 1930s3$15,800 to rebuild Union, Lyon, Army, Sanchez and Noe streets · 1930
- 1920s19E. W. Burr paid $9,250 for Sherman School land at Union · 1921
- 1910s41Anderson & Ringrose paid $15,645 for building the Argonne School · 1919
- 1900s4North Beach club asks for the Union Street railroad to be restored · 1906
The most notable decisions
$885,127 passed for the summer food and after-school snack programs
Ordinance · 9 June 2009 ↗Neighborhood shopping streets across the city would be rezoned
Ordinance · 10 June 1985 ↗Anderson & Ringrose paid $15,645 for building the Argonne School
Resolution · 29 September 1919 ↗Anderson & Ringrose paid $22,243.76 for the Monroe School
Resolution · 28 July 1919 ↗$8,000 for school repairs and $7,635.31 for the Union Street school
Resolution · 2 July 1917 ↗$53,696 paid to Newsom, Wold & Kohn for Polytechnic High School
Resolution · 27 July 1914 ↗Neighborhood shopping street controls extended six more months
Resolution · 24 March 1986 ↗E. W. Burr paid $9,250 for Sherman School land at Union
Resolution · 19 December 1921 ↗$55,959 to build Engine House No. 12 at Drumm and Commercial
Resolution · 11 May 1914 ↗Citywide rewrite of neighborhood shop zoning under consideration
Ordinance · 9 March 1987 ↗
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