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Douglass St

91 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Douglass St, between 1907 and 2008, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about paving and grading, sewers, parks and playgrounds.

91
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Douglass St, between 1907 and 2008
Most of them in the 1920s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.11
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.10
Parks and playgroundsPlaygrounds and recreation grounds.8
Blasting permitsPermission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.7
SchoolsSchool sites bought, built and repaired.5
ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.4

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2000s6
    New stop signs at Douglass, Cabrillo and Cesar Chavez Streets · 2001
  2. 1990s5
    Diagonal parking set on Harrison Street, motorcycle spaces on Phelan Avenue · 1993
  3. 1980s1
    A lessee to be allowed to evict a sublessee · 1984
  4. 1970s2
    Vacant lot of 6,220 square feet taken on Seward Street · 1971
  5. 1950s2
    Proposed: redevelopment area between Portola Drive and Laidley Street · 1950
  6. 1940s5
    Lillian Giovannetti Dunne given $6,150 for the Clipper Street extension · 1946
  7. 1930s5
    Payment of $250 to Leppla for land for the Douglass Street stairway approved · 1932
  8. 1920s38
    More buildings ordered for Noe Valley Junior High at Elizabeth and Douglass · 1926
  9. 1910s14
    City to take land around Twin Peaks for public use · 1912
  10. 1900s13
    Ellen Dore and family sell land for Corbett Avenue for $5,000 · 1909

The most notable decisions

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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

See also

Streets near it on the record

Castro StSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordStates StSame block of the map, 7 decisions on recordTreat Ave92 decisions on record, next to it in the rankingPresidio Ave91 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