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120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 3rd St, between 1906 and 2025, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about sewers, railroads and spur tracks, pg&e and the utilities.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 3rd St, between 1906 and 2025
Most of them in the 1910s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.14
Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.12
PG&E and the utilitiesThe gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.9
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.7
Clinics and hospitalsClinics, health centres and hospitals.6
FreewaysThe freeways, from the land bought for them to the fights about them.4

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2020s4
    Proposed: sidewalk widths for the new Mission Rock streets · 2025
  2. 2010s8
    Proposal for emergency sewer repair on Third Street costing up to $700,000 (outcome not in the record) · 2019
  3. 2000s3
    Proposed: $22.4M for Third Street rail work · 2003
  4. 1970s2
    Board funds traffic signals, street paving and an airport roadway · 1972
  5. 1950s3
    Proposed: seeking an international exposition in San Francisco, 1962 · 1957
  6. 1940s9
    Payment of $6,750 to John Sheehy for land for McLaren Park approved · 1941
  7. 1930s16
    $20,000 paid to Coast Day Company for Lafayette Park land · 1938
  8. 1920s32
    Bills paid for Steinhart Aquarium and Portola Drive street work · 1928
  9. 1910s35
    Payment of $6,150 to Carnahan & Mulford for the Glenn Park School approved · 1913
  10. 1900s8
    Proposed: $4627 to Frank Simonart for grading the school lot at Twentieth and Kentucky · 1906

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