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49 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Foerster St, between 1910 and 1963, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about paving and grading, sewers, schools.

49
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Foerster St, between 1910 and 1963
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.17
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.7
SchoolsSchool sites bought, built and repaired.4
Blasting permitsPermission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.2
Streetcars and transitStreetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.2
Land bought and soldLand changing hands with the city on one side of it.2

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1960s3
    Alfred Nordloff's land bought for $37,500 to widen Geneva Avenue · 1963
  2. 1950s2
    Foerster Street improved with about $6,000 of city aid · 1955
  3. 1940s2
    Meyer Brothers pays $4,130.97 for the Foerster Street slide · 1943
  4. 1920s25
    Land bought at Flood Avenue and Foerster Street for a school · 1926
  5. 1910s17
    $2,469.32 paid Federal Construction for the Foerster Street storm sewer · 1915

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