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28 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about California, between 1923 and 1997, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about railroads and spur tracks, freeways, schools.
What keeps coming up
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1990s1Proposed: Sheriff's deal to screen deputy applicants · 1997
- 1970s1Board asks the state to approve dedicating Mendell Street · 1974
- 1960s1Southern-Embarcadero Freeway route near Brannan Street, no outcome stated · 1966
- 1950s2California Highway Commission asked for a new Bayshore Freeway connection · 1958
- 1940s6Proposed, approved later: Ban on night driving in Golden Gate Park · 1943
- 1930s6State asked to adopt the Divisional Highway through San Francisco · 1936
- 1920s11City gives $250,000 for a new highway down the peninsula · 1923
The most notable decisions
City gives $250,000 for a new highway down the peninsula
Resolution · 1923 ↗16 July 1923California Highway Commission given $100,000 for the Peninsular Highway
Resolution · 1924 ↗22 September 1924Payment of $100,000 to California Highway Commission for the Peninsular Highway approved
Resolution · passed · 1925 ↗20 July 1925Proposal to give the California Highway Commission $100,000 for the Peninsular Highway (outcome not in the record)
Resolution · 1925 ↗13 July 1925California Highway Commission asked for a new Bayshore Freeway connection
Resolution · 1958 ↗10 March 1958
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State asked to adopt the Divisional Highway through San Francisco
Resolution · 1936 ↗30 March 1936Proposal to pay the state $100,000 for the Peninsula Highway (outcome not in the record)
Resolution · 1924 ↗15 September 1924State asked to allow a new James Lick Freeway connection
Resolution · 1957 ↗14 January 1957City opposes moving state highway money away from north bay bottlenecks
Resolution · 1937 ↗23 August 1937California Highway Commission urged to fund a four-lane Waldo approach
Resolution · 1935 ↗18 November 1935
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