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20th St

120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 20th St, between 1906 and 1980, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about railroads and spur tracks, land bought and sold, paving and grading.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 20th St, between 1906 and 1980
Most of them in the 1910s · 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 1930.18
Land bought and soldLand changing hands with the city on one side of it.11
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.9
SchoolsSchool sites bought, built and repaired.9
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.6
Blasting permitsPermission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.5

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1980s2
    Emergency sewer and pavement repairs ordered on Carolina Street · 1980
  2. 1970s1
    Port allowed to fence part of Twentieth Street east of Illinois · 1976
  3. 1950s1
    Stop signs at Bryant and Twentieth Streets until signals arrive · 1951
  4. 1940s2
    Proposed, approved later: City land at Texas and Mississippi Streets proposed to open to light industry · 1946
  5. 1930s6
    Closed parts of Nineteenth Street deeded to the John Center Company · 1931
  6. 1920s30
    Block by Carolina and Wisconsin streets opened to light industry · 1928
  7. 1910s62
    $4,470 paid to James Stewart for Daniel Webster School land · 1916
  8. 1900s16
    Proposal to pay $14,700 to Western Pacific Railway for a Connecticut Street school lot (outcome not in the record) · 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

22nd StSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordDe Haro StSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordRhode Island StSame block of the map, 117 decisions on recordSouthern Heights AveSame block of the map, 7 decisions on record

Overview

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