Embarcadero Freeway
Freeway1878–2013
936 records of San Francisco tie this place, 1878–2013: 152 decisions of the Board of Supervisors and 784 facts read from city reports. Open the full list, with filters for years, kind and outcome. See the page about Embarcadero Freeway: what it is, who appears with it.
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- Freeway
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- 0202
- Records
- 936: 152 Board decisions, 784 facts from city reports
- Years
- 1878–2013
What the records say
The 60 most telling of its 936 records, in date order: the ones an editor picked first, then the highest scored. The one-line summaries were written by a language model from the printed page; open the page to check the wording.
| When | What the record says | Outcome | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1955-12-27 | The Board set a special public hearing for January 3, 1956 on proposals to build the Embarcadero Freeway. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1956-01-03 | Straight-line Embarcadero Freeway approved by resolution 16288, despite calls for a curved route instead. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1957 | Bayshore Freeway, Bay Bridge and Embarcadero Freeway blocks · finding: industrial buildings built and residential uses almost entirely displaced | finding | City report: A preliminary plan for a project in the South of Market Redevelopment Area "D" : report to the City Planning Commission and the Redevelopment Agency scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Redevelopment Agency of the City and County of San Francisco · lead agency: Redevelopment Agency of the City and County of San Francisco, responsible for implementing the redevelopment in the project area | agency | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 · other: Federal Grant $5,933,700 | project | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 · other: Alternative plans considered and reported on by the Agency and Planning Commission within 30 days | project | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 · finding: Nearly all of the non-produce area within the project area is blighted | finding | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 · finding: Vacancy rate in the non-produce area is higher than in the produce area | finding | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 residential development · units: approximately 2,178 apartments in nine buildings | project | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 apartment buildings · height ft: high-rise fire proof structures | building | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 · other: Property owners may combine properties in a block and develop it under the Final Redevelopment Plan | project | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 · acreage: approximately 44.61 acres | site | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 produce market · finding: Wholesale buildings in the produce area, built mostly shortly after 1906 fire, have inadequate loading facilities and truck access | finding | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 produce market · finding: Streets directly serving the produce market vary from 29'-2-1/4" to 46'-3/4" in pavement width | finding | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 produce market · finding: Practically no parking available on streets in the market and peripheral area | finding | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 · finding: obsolescence and growing lack of proper utilization | finding | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 · finding: numerous vacancies and low rents, except in the produce market itself | finding | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 · finding: mixed character of uses: food processing, restaurants, produce wholesalers, sub-standard rooming houses, law offices, bars and light industry | finding | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 · finding: average lot size 6,600 square feet; one-fifth of lots less than 35 feet wide | finding | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 · finding: Tentative Plan conforms with the objectives, principles and standards of the San Francisco Master Plan | finding | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 · proposes: new freedom of traffic through the project | action | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 · acreage: 16.31 net acres of new residential development | project | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1962-12-24 | Board approves a freeway agreement with the State to build part of the Southern Embarcadero Freeway between Sixteenth and Nineteenth Streets. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1963-05-13 | Billboard and sign rules along Embarcadero Freeway approved | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1963-10-28 | Board refused to adopt the resolution on the Embarcadero Freeway ramp designs, 4 to 7. | refused | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1963-11-12 | Board adopted as amended a resolution urging the Governor to create a commission studying Lower Market-Embarcadero freeway development and land use. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1965 | Downtown San Francisco Civic Center-Powell-Montgomery-Embarcadero Station Areas · other: 1965 Pre-BART Land Use and Zoning map | site | City report: Land use and urban development project : program-wide case studies scanned page ↗ |
| 1965-04-26 | Supervisor Morrison asked the City Planning Department and Public Works to report on demolishing or rebuilding the Embarcadero Freeway; request granted. | motion | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1965-04-26 | Supervisor Moscone was granted permission to prepare questions with the City Attorney on using savings to demolish the Embarcadero Freeway. | motion | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1965-07-26 | Board adopted a policy for a subsurface Golden Gate Freeway, phasing out the elevated Embarcadero Freeway. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1966-07-25 | City sewers built with state for Embarcadero Freeway | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1968-08-26 | Supervisor Blake's proposal to demolish the elevated Embarcadero Freeway was referred to the Streets and Transportation Committee. | referred | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1969-03-17 | State deal approved to relocate city sewers for freeway work | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1969-10-27 | Supervisors asked state to halt Embarcadero Freeway link work | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1970-12-14 | Board resolution requests construction of the Maritime Parkway with ramp links to the northern stubs of the Embarcadero Freeway; adopted. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1973-12-10 | City backs tearing down Embarcadero Freeway, opposes I-280 extension | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1978 | Embarcadero, Powell Street and Civic Center BART stations · other: major plazas built | site | City report: Land use and urban development project : program-wide case studies scanned page ↗ |
| 1979-10-29 | Embarcadero Freeway demolition backed; federal road money redirected | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1985-11-04 | Embarcadero freeway removal and I-280 transfer-fund projects adopted as amended, urging Mayor to seek state and federal study funds. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1986-06-16 | Board urges the Mayor and Chief Administrative Officer to stop spending on tearing down the Embarcadero Freeway. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1990-06-25 | State urged to drop the Embarcadero Freeway from its highway system | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1990-09-24 | Board adopted, as amended, a resolution endorsing immediate demolition of the Embarcadero Freeway and surface traffic replacement, while seeking subsurface funding. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1991-06-17 | Department of Public Works may spend $481,000 (≈ $1.2 million in 2026 dollars) from the Mayor's Earthquake Relief Fund on Embarcadero Freeway replacement planning, to be reimbursed. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1991-06-17 | $58.5M (≈ $144.7 million in 2026 dollars) sought to put the Embarcadero Freeway underground | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1994-02-14 | Study of options other than full rebuild of Embarcadero freeway ordered. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1994-10-24 | Public Works may accept and spend $3,005,943 (≈ $6.8 million in 2026 dollars) in federal and state funds to study replacing the Embarcadero Freeway. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1997-03-24 | Proposed agreement to sell former Embarcadero Freeway land between Steuart and Spear Streets to the Redevelopment Agency. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Preliminary Redevelopment Plan, Project Area E-1 · adopted: adopted by San Francisco City Planning Commission by Resolution Number 4864 | project | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Preliminary Redevelopment Plan, Project Area E-1 · adopted: adopted by the San Francisco City Planning Commission, Resolution Number 4864 | action | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 · other: Project area selected and preliminary plan formulated by City Planning Commission Resolution 4864 | event | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 · lead agency: Redevelopment Agency of the City and County of San Francisco | project | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 · lead agency: Redevelopment Agency of the City and County of San Francisco | agency | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1956 | Redevelopment Area E · cost usd: Federal capital grant reservation of $5,000,000 | action | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 report · other: Report transmitted by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to Redevelopment Agency chairman Joseph L. Alioto | event | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Wholesale Produce Market Area, South Basin Housing Project Area · finding: blighted conditions described in December 14, 1954 report to the San Francisco City Planning Commission; conditions still essentially the same | finding | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Redevelopment Area E · approved: Found and determined blighted by the Board of Supervisors, Resolution Number 15288 | event | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Tentative Redevelopment Plan, Project Area E-1 · lead agency: Redevelopment Agency contracted Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Architects, to prepare the Tentative Plan | project | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project E-1 · lead agency: Redevelopment Agency of The City and County of San Francisco in Cooperation with the Department of City Planning | project | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 1958 | Redevelopment Agency application for Federal survey and planning funds · approved: Application for Federal survey and planning funds approved by Finance Committee of the Board of Supervisors | action | City report: Embarcadero-Lower Market Redevelopment Project Area E-1 : a report on the tentative redevelopment plan scanned page ↗ |
| 2003 | Former Embarcadero Freeway Parcel · sold: sold to the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency | property_record | City report: Real property owned by the city and county of San Francisco / 2003 scanned page ↗ |
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