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120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Carolina St, between 1906 and 2020, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about railroads and spur tracks, paving and grading, sewers.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Carolina St, between 1906 and 2020
Most of them in the 1920s · 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 1930.13
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.12
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.5
Streets closed for goodStreets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.4
Street name changesWhen a street was given a different name.3
Environmental reviewNothing before the 1970s, then permanent: the review law arriving and staying.3

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2020s3
    Mission Bay streets to be renamed, with Channel Street becoming Mission Creek · 2020
  2. 2010s3
    Carolina Street stairway named Jack Balestreri Way · 2013
  3. 2000s7
    Channel Street portion to be swapped with Sunset Scavenger · 2009
  4. 1990s3
    Board backs the Mayor on keeping the needle exchange emergency · 1995
  5. 1980s2
    Emergency sewer and pavement repairs ordered on Carolina Street · 1980
  6. 1970s2
    Macor, Inc. allowed to fence off half of Channel Street · 1974
  7. 1960s2
    Eighteenth Street improved and its level changed between Arkansas and Carolina · 1969
  8. 1950s2
    $10,750 voted to buy Mary Koch's property for a school · 1953
  9. 1940s8
    New street opened and named Bridgeview Drive · 1941
  10. 1930s15
    Proposed, approved later: $4,000 paid the Bogdanoffs for a Potrero playground lot · 1931
  11. 1920s54
    Block by Carolina and Wisconsin streets opened to light industry · 1928
  12. 1910s8
    Proposal to regrade Army Street, with nearby owners paying damages (outcome not in the record) · 1914
  13. 1900s11
    Street levels changed on Eighteenth and Wisconsin streets · 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

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Overview

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