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67 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 13th, between 1906 and 1951, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about paving and grading, sewers, streetcars and transit.

67
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 13th, between 1906 and 1951
Most of them in the 1910s

What keeps coming up

Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.14
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.7
Streetcars and transitStreetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.5
SchoolsSchool sites bought, built and repaired.5
PG&E and the utilitiesThe gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.5
Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.4

Decade by decade

Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.

  1. 1950s1
    Angle parking approved on Fourth and Fifth Avenues near Parnassus · 1951
  2. 1920s14
    Columbus School addition ordered on Thirteenth Avenue · 1921
  3. 1910s46
    $55,959 to build Engine House No. 12 at Drumm and Commercial · 1914
  4. 1900s6
    Land sought on Thirteenth Avenue for the Sutro School site · 1908

The most notable decisions

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Every decision the record places on this street is here. 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