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120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Division St, between 1907 and 2015, 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, fire stations.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Division St, between 1907 and 2015
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.44
Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.23
Fire stationsEngine houses and fire stations.20
Clinics and hospitalsClinics, health centres and hospitals.15
Streetcars and transitStreetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.14
ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.6

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2010s1
  2. 2000s3
    Proposed: new off-street parking limits for South of Market · 2007
  3. 1990s1
    Proposed, approved later: $66,000 for Sheriff's Department contract work · 1991
  4. 1980s12
    Failed: proposal to impose interim zoning across the central South of Market area · 1986
  5. 1960s1
    Proposed: how long freeway billboards may stay up · 1965
  6. 1940s9
    Bond required for the storekeeper at the Hassler Health Home · 1945
  7. 1920s11
    Proposed: awarding O. Monson $51,370 to build Engine House No. 29 · 1924
  8. 1910s53
    $26,125 paid to Contra Costa Construction for the Church Street railway · 1916
  9. 1900s29
    Payment of $9,894 to Henning & Burke for Truck House No. 7 approved · 1909

The most notable decisions

  • $26,125 paid to Contra Costa Construction for the Church Street railway

    Resolution · 1916 ↗
    24 July 1916
  • Payment of $10,500 to The Lindgren Co. for the Civic Center library approved

    Resolution · passed · 1915 ↗
    20 December 1915
  • Proposal to accept Crocker Estate and others' land for a Bay View park (outcome not in the record)

    Ordinance · 1915 ↗
    19 October 1915
  • Proposal to pay John and Mary Franke $3,500 for school land (outcome not in the record)

    Resolution · 1910 ↗
    18 July 1910
  • Failed: proposal to impose interim zoning across the central South of Market area

    Resolution · 1986 ↗
    24 November 1986
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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