Washington St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Washington St, between 1906 and 2023, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about parking, schools, taxis and garages.
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What keeps coming up
- Parking8Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- Schools8School sites bought, built and repaired.
- Taxis and garages6Taxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.
- Streetcars and transit6Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- Clinics and hospitals6Clinics, health centres and hospitals.
- Blasting permits4Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2020s1Limits on flats per building to change east of Columbus Avenue · 2023
- 2010s2Seawall Lot 351 to be traded to San Francisco Waterfront Partners · 2012
- 2000s2Nextel to rent antenna space at San Francisco General Hospital Garage · 2000
- 1990s10City orders emergency repairs to the sewer on Gough Street · 1991
- 1980s6Chinatown rezoned with new height limits and neighborhood business districts · 1987
- 1970s7Jackson Square made a historic district between Kearny and Sansome Streets · 1972
- 1960s9Ferry Park to be enlarged and Washington Street widened · 1964
- 1950s2Turn rules adopted where Van Ness Avenue meets many streets · 1952
- 1940s3Coast Bay Company paid $20,000 for Lafayette Park land · 1940
- 1930s5American Box and Drum wins a twenty-year lease in Colma · 1931
- 1920s39Hee Suey Law Jessie paid for Washington Street school land · 1927
- 1910s21George A. Webster sells land for the Oriental School site · 1912
- 1900s13City Attorney seeks land at Clay and Gough for Lowell High · 1909
The most notable decisions
Coast Bay Company paid $20,000 for Lafayette Park land
Resolution · 25 November 1940 ↗Hee Suey Law Jessie paid for Washington Street school land
Resolution · 2 January 1927 ↗Land on Washington Street to be taken for a school
Resolution · 14 June 1926 ↗Waller Street land to be taken for a school
Resolution · 7 April 1924 ↗$3,500 paid to Cox Estate Company for Andrew Jackson School land
Resolution · 15 May 1922 ↗George A. Webster sells land for the Oriental School site
Resolution · 16 September 1912 ↗Chinatown rezoned with new height limits and neighborhood business districts
Ordinance · 6 April 1987 ↗Limits on flats per building to change east of Columbus Avenue
Ordinance · 17 October 2023 ↗Ferry Park to be enlarged and Washington Street widened
Ordinance · 13 July 1964 ↗Fire limits to be extended along Van Ness Avenue
Ordinance · 15 January 1923 ↗
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