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120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 16th St, between 1906 and 2012, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about railroads and spur tracks, schools, land bought and sold.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 16th St, between 1906 and 2012
Most of them in the 1920s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.26
SchoolsSchool sites bought, built and repaired.15
Land bought and soldLand changing hands with the city on one side of it.13
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.4
Oil tanks and boilersFuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.3
Blasting permitsPermission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.2

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2010s3
    City takes over the new sewer main under Owens Street · 2012
  2. 1990s2
    $100,000 emergency repair to the Owens Street force main · 1995
  3. 1970s1
    Federal money sought for crossing gates at Third and Sixteenth Streets · 1978
  4. 1960s4
    Proposed, approved later: City to take over new roadways on University and Sixteenth Streets · 1964
  5. 1950s4
    Payment of $17,327.07 for Sixteenth Street work instead of owners approved · 1958
  6. 1940s7
    Proposal to set garbage rate of $0.90 a ton if the rail ramp closes (outcome not in the record) · 1946
  7. 1930s6
    Garbage disposal franchise to go to the Sanitary Fill Company · 1935
  8. 1920s59
    Payment of $10,200 to Lillie Van Damme for Edison School land approved · 1925
  9. 1910s11
    Proposed: widening Masonic Avenue to Levant Street, estimated $4,850 · 1917
  10. 1900s23
    Julian Avenue lot rented for the temporary Mission Grammar School · 1908

The most notable decisions

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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

See also

Streets near it on the record

17th StSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordNoe StSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordPond StSame block of the map, 5 decisions on record15th St120+ decisions on record, next to it in the ranking

Overview

The city, drawn from its own recordEvery block, and what the Board of Supervisors decided there