Geary Street
Named in the records1894–2025
2,432 records of San Francisco tie this place, 1894–2025: 2,254 decisions of the Board of Supervisors and 178 facts read from city reports. Open the full list, with filters for years, kind and outcome.
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- 2,432: 2,254 Board decisions, 178 facts from city reports
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- 1894–2025
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The 60 most telling of its 2,432 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1907-09-16 | Passed final: $5,000 (≈ $180,504 in 2026 dollars) paid to Rebecca Levy to complete purchase of a Geary Street lot for the Fire Department. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1908-01-06 | Board directed the City Attorney to stop defending the $720,000 (≈ $27.0 million in 2026 dollars) Geary Street Railroad purchase after a court ruled the appropriation void. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1909-05-10 | Board of Supervisors finally passed Ordinance No. 700 in the Geary Street municipal railway bond series. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1909-05-24 | Ordinance passed calling a June 24, 1909 bond election on $1,950,000 (≈ $73.0 million in 2026 dollars) for a municipal street railway on Geary Street. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1909-06-07 | Notice given of a June 24, 1909 special election on a $1,950,000 (≈ $73.0 million in 2026 dollars) bond for a municipal street railway on Geary Street. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1909-11-15 | Special election to be called on bonds for the Geary Street railway; passed first reading only | passed first reading | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1909-11-26 | Special election called on bonds for the Geary Street railway | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1910-02-10 | $1.9M (≈ $68.6 million in 2026 dollars) in bonds proposed for the Geary Street municipal railway | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1910-06-27 | Board adopted a resolution urging speedy construction of the Geary Street Municipal Railroad after an accident involving Mayor McCarthy. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1910-06-27 | The Board resolved to speed construction of the Geary Street municipal railroad, sending sympathy to Mayor McCarthy after his accident. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1911 | The Board of Public Works was authorized to build the Geary Street Railway itself using day labor, passed by 11 to 5. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1911 | Proposed $270,000 (≈ $9.7 million in 2026 dollars) from the Geary Street Railway Fund to build the Geary Street municipal railroad track. | passed first reading | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1911 | The Board accepted E. A. Norton's offer to sell land at Jefferson and Jones Streets for a Geary Street railway power house for $30,000 (≈ $1.1 million in 2026 dollars). | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1912-04-29 | Geary Street, Park and Ocean Railway Company directed to end operations after May 5, 1912, as Mahoney builds the new Geary line. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1912-07-01 | Bill proposed ordering a fire engine house built on the school lot at Twelfth Avenue, south of Geary Street, for up to $37,000 (≈ $1.3 million in 2026 dollars). | passed first reading | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1912-07-01 | Fire engine house to be built on a school lot on Twelfth Avenue south of Geary Street, costing up to $37,000 (≈ $1.3 million in 2026 dollars). | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1912-10-21 | Board allowed a $22,922.72 (≈ $798,988 in 2026 dollars) third payment to F. Rolandi for construction of a Geary Street Railway car barn. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1912-12-23 | Geary Street Municipal Railway to start running with ten cars | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1913-02-18 | Geary Street Municipal Railway to be extended along Van Ness Avenue | refused | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1913-06-09 | Supervisors passed a $3,500,000 (≈ $119.1 million in 2026 dollars) bond ordinance for a municipal street railway system serving Market, Van Ness, California and Geary streets. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1913-08-18 | Surplus Geary Street Railway construction funds were ordered invested in city bonds, including school and hospital bonds purchases. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1914-05-11 | Planing mill permit on Geary Street was refused after Jordan Park and Arguello residents protested property value risks. | refused | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1914-11-02 | Colored Nonpartisan Leagues of California was permitted to hold an all-night ball at Majestic Hall, Geary and Fillmore streets. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1915-06-28 | Board refuses to move $200,000 (≈ $6.7 million in 2026 dollars) to redeem Geary Street Railway bonds | refused | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1915-09-20 | Board asks the Park Commission to allow a Geary Street Municipal Railway extension across Golden Gate Park. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1915-11-10 | Board ordered steel sand bins built at Municipal Railway car barns at Seventeenth and Hampshire streets and Presidio avenue and Geary street. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1923-02-26 | A proposed zoning change would move the north side of Geary Street between Josephine and Emerson streets to light industrial. | passed first reading | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1923-03-05 | Board passed ordinance moving the Geary Street frontage between Josephine and Emerson streets from commercial to light industrial district. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1923-09-04 | Zoning changed on Forty-fourth Avenue near Anza Street to first residential, and a Geary Street block to commercial. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1923-12-24 | Proposed ordinance would rezone part of Eighth Avenue near Geary Street from residential to commercial use. | passed first reading | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1924-01-07 | Eighth Avenue frontage 175 feet south of Geary Street changed from residential to commercial use district. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1924-04-28 | The northwest corner of Geary Street and Thirtieth Avenue was rezoned from second residential to commercial use. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1924-12-15 | Easterly side of Arguello Boulevard near Geary Street rezoned from Second Residential to Commercial district. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1925-11-23 | The Board accepted J. B. Martin et al.'s offer to sell land at Geary Street and Thirty-first Avenue for a school, for $24,000 (≈ $462,089 in 2026 dollars). | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1926-01-04 | Renato Bacci's offer to sell land on Geary Street near Thirty-first Avenue for $8,250 (≈ $157,048 in 2026 dollars) for a school was accepted. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1927-04-11 | East side of Masonic Avenue, south of Geary Street, rezoned from First to Second Residential. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1928-01-30 | Elizabeth Herester Huie's offer to sell land on Geary Street for school purposes for $6,000 (≈ $118,225 in 2026 dollars) accepted. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1928-03-19 | Gustave B. Henno seeks permission to build and run a dog and cat hospital on Arguello Boulevard near Geary Street. | passed first reading | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1928-08-06 | Architect's fees of $6,000 (≈ $118,225 in 2026 dollars) for the Geary Street School, to be built near Laurel Hill Cemetery, were adopted. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1928-11-26 | Ordinance passed ordering construction of Fire Department Engine House No. 47 at Point Lobos avenue, Geary street and Forty-second avenue. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1928-12-10 | Northeast corner of Geary Street and Presidio Avenue rezoned from Second Residential to Commercial district. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1928-12-17 | Board rezoned the east side of Eighteenth Avenue north of Geary Street from residential to commercial use. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1929-04-22 | Construction of Roosevelt Junior High School at Arguello boulevard and Geary street approved from Special School Tax, with contracts to three firms. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1929-05-20 | Appropriates $123,997.32 (≈ $2.4 million in 2026 dollars) from the Special School Tax to build the Geary Street School on Geary Street. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1930-03-03 | Payment of $32,036.75 (≈ $646,375 in 2026 dollars) to Meyer Bros. as the acceptance payment for general construction of the Geary Street School approved. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1930-04-07 | Ordinance ordering construction of Geary Street and Twenty-third Avenue main sewers passed, funded by 1929 sewer bonds. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1931-02-02 | Supervisors overrode the Planning Commission and rezoned the northeast corner of Geary Street and Thirty-fourth Avenue to commercial use. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1931-08-31 | Geary Street from Presidio Avenue to Forty-eighth Avenue was renamed Geary Boulevard by resolution. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1931-09-21 | Board rescinded the 1931 renaming of Geary Street between Presidio and Forty-eighth avenues to Geary Boulevard. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1932-02-08 | Commission's refusal to rezone both sides of 47th Avenue from Geary Street to Point Lobos Avenue to commercial is disapproved. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1939-10-30 | Supervisor Uhl asked the City Planning Commission to consider rezoning the north side of Geary Street between Divisadero Street and Presidio Avenue. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1948-05-10 | J. J. Phillips defends the $98,000 (≈ $1.4 million in 2026 dollars) Geary Street carbarn purchase | refused | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1950-12-26 | Rezoning from two-family housing to shops refused on Geary Street | refused | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1950-12-26 | Matt Schmitt asks for shops on his vacant Geary Street lot | refused | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1950-12-26 | Rezoning from two-family housing to shops denied on Geary Street | refused | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1956-11-13 | Ordinance appropriating $2,040,000 (≈ $25.3 million in 2026 dollars) for Geary Street reconstruction and track removal passed finally. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1974-08-12 | Victorian Alliance appealed denial of landmark status for City of Paris building; hearing set September 16, 1974. | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1974-10-07 | Plan to delay Goodman Building landmark decision voted down | rejected | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1989-09-11 | Landmark status proposed for the Alcazar Theater at 650 Geary Street | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 2023-09-26 | $47.4M (≈ $52.4 million in 2026 dollars) loan for 440 Geary Street supportive housing approved | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
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