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71 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 21st St, between 1908 and 1999, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about railroads and spur tracks, parking, paving and grading.

71
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 21st St, between 1908 and 1999
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 1930.10
ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.8
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.7
Blasting permitsPermission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.5
Keeping horses and cowsUntil about 1930 the Board voted on whether you could keep animals at your address.3
Parks and playgroundsPlaygrounds and recreation grounds.3

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1990s1
    New stop signs at 21st and Castro Streets and elsewhere · 1999
  2. 1970s1
    Proposed: hotel tax money for the San Francisco Symphony · 1976
  3. 1960s3
    Tighter rules on explosives passed for second reading · 1961
  4. 1950s8
    $20,208 paid Harry Becker for the Bartlett Street parking lot · 1951
  5. 1940s1
    City land on Douglass Street near Twenty-first offered for sale · 1946
  6. 1930s2
    Bulkhead order on Twentieth Avenue south of Irving Street repealed · 1930
  7. 1920s21
    Proposal to seek land at Twenty-first and Folsom streets for a playground (outcome not in the record) · 1923
  8. 1910s31
    $8,000 set aside for extra work at the Edison School · 1913
  9. 1900s3
    Street levels to be changed on Douglass and Twenty-first streets · 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

See also

Streets near it on the record

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Overview

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