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120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Alameda St, between 1906 and 2004, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about railroads and spur tracks, blasting permits, paving and grading.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Alameda St, between 1906 and 2004
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 1930.34
Blasting permitsPermission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.11
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.9
ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.5
Street lightsLighting a street, block by block.3
Streets closed for goodStreets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.3

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2000s2
    Parking changes on Howard, Taylor and Masonic, including Trader Joe's frontage · 2004
  2. 1990s9
    Proposed: ban on cigarette vending machines · 1996
  3. 1980s5
    Street levels to change on Florida Street · 1986
  4. 1960s1
    Proposed: a retaining wall and driveway for Continental Baking in York Street · 1965
  5. 1950s3
    Proposed: setting aside the Alameda-York Parking Plaza between York and Hampshire Streets · 1958
  6. 1940s8
    Parking banned day and night on the Third Street viaduct · 1943
  7. 1930s19
    City block on De Haro Street to be leased out · 1937
  8. 1920s19
    $9,650 to cover part of the Oakwood Street extension cost · 1928
  9. 1910s43
    Proposal to require railways to carry each other's freight cars on spur tracks (outcome not in the record) · 1916
  10. 1900s11
    Proposal to add land near Hyde Street to Spring Valley Grammar School (outcome not in the record) · 1909

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

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Overview

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