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Gennessee St

19 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Gennessee St, between 1912 and 2003, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about paving and grading, railroads and spur tracks, parking.

19
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Gennessee St, between 1912 and 2003
Most of them in the 1910s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.3
Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.2
ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.2
Environmental reviewNothing before the 1970s, then permanent: the review law arriving and staying.2

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2000s2
    New stop signs for four corners, including 20th and Arkansas · 2003
  2. 1960s1
    Improvement ordered for Gennessee Street between Mangels and Melrose Streets · 1965
  3. 1940s2
    City takes over the new roadway on Melrose Avenue · 1940
  4. 1930s5
    Ethel Brincard and May Brennan deed land for Melrose Avenue · 1931
  5. 1920s3
    City to run a five-cent bus line along The Embarcadero · 1925
  6. 1910s6
    Proposal to curb and pave Silliman Street and Hearst Avenue (outcome not in the record) · 1918

The most notable decisions

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  • Proposed, approved later: City sets how far back buildings must sit on Tenth Avenue

    Ordinance · passed · 1925 ↗
    25 May 1925

  • Improvement ordered for Gennessee Street between Mangels and Melrose Streets

    Ordinance · 1965 ↗
    1 March 1965

  • Proposal to order stone sidewalks on Flood Avenue and other city streets (outcome not in the record)

    Ordinance · 1930 ↗
    27 January 1930

  • Proposal to curb and pave Silliman Street and Hearst Avenue (outcome not in the record)

    Ordinance · 1918 ↗
    8 April 1918

  • Genesee Street ordered graded, curbed and paved between Sunnyside and Hearst

    Ordinance · 1916 ↗
    15 February 1916

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

Mangels AveSame block of the map, 49 decisions on recordFoerster StSame block of the map, 48 decisions on recordMelrose AveSame block of the map, 24 decisions on recordFont18 decisions on record, next to it in the ranking

Overview

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