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120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Diamond St, between 1907 and 1999, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about dance halls and masquerades, railroads and spur tracks, paving and grading.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Diamond St, between 1907 and 1999
Most of them in the 1920s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

Dance halls and masqueradesPermits for balls and dances, named by the club holding them and the hall they hired.8
Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.6
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.6
PG&E and the utilitiesThe gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.4
Protests and appealsA protest recorded at a hearing, or an appeal against a decision — brought by neighbours and by applicants alike.4
Streetcars and transitStreetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.3

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1990s1
    Commendation proposed for the Glen Park Association's Diamond Street plan · 1999
  2. 1980s3
    $3.0M in federal money for Market Street bicycle lanes · 1982
  3. 1970s8
    Proposed, approved later: Freeze on new bars and restaurants on 24th Street · 1979
  4. 1950s3
    Diamond Street lot bought from Erna E. Grosch for a playground · 1950
  5. 1940s2
    Duncan Street to be improved with about $3,500 in city aid · 1948
  6. 1930s11
    Meat plants to pay 19 cents per hundred pounds for inspection · 1935
  7. 1920s38
    Voters approved $1.4M in bonds for the Bernal Cut · 1927
  8. 1910s34
    $80,467.25 to Eaton & Smith for the Twin Peaks tunnel line · 1917
  9. 1900s20
    Proposed: bonds for fire water, Telegraph Hill and a new hospital · 1907

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

Day StSame block of the map, 25 decisions on recordBeacon StSame block of the map, 13 decisions on recordDe Haro St120+ decisions on record, next to it in the rankingDivision St120+ decisions on record, next to it in the ranking

Overview

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