Street
Great Hwy
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Great Hwy, between 1908 and 2025, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about pg&e and the utilities, sewers, streetcars and transit.
What keeps coming up
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2020s4Proposal to plan the Great Highway Promenade with a $1.0M state grant (outcome not in the record) · 2025
- 2010s3Proposed, approved later: $600,500 for airport bomb-sniffing dogs · 2011
- 2000s3Proposal for an Ocean Beach erosion study costed at $2.8M with the Army Corps (outcome not in the record) · 2004
- 1990s1$200,000 to stop slope erosion along the Great Highway · 1998
- 1980s10$7M set aside for the Great Highway seawall, held in reserve · 1986
- 1950s1Proposed: telling the Board a branch library is planned for the Sunset center · 1953
- 1940s4Proposal for a $585,900 agreement with the state for major street work this year (outcome not in the record) · 1940
- 1930s6Hetch Hetchy suppliers paid, including $5,218.30 to Hercules Powder · 1930
- 1920s70Final $27,000 paid to R. C. Storrie for Twin Peaks Tunnel · 1920
- 1910s17Proposal for a $1.5M City budget list, from street lighting to schools (outcome not in the record) · 1918
- 1900s1Parkside Realty's land accepted and named Sloat Boulevard · 1908
The most notable decisions
Final $27,000 paid to R. C. Storrie for Twin Peaks Tunnel
Resolution · 1920 ↗20 September 1920Proposed: $39,497.62 to Utah Construction Co. for the Hetch Hetchy dam
Resolution · proposed · 1920 ↗9 August 1920Proposal to pay $45,000 to Utah Construction Co. for work on Hetch Hetchy Dam (outcome not in the record)
Resolution · 1920 ↗12 July 1920Proposal for a $1.5M City budget list, from street lighting to schools (outcome not in the record)
Motion · 1918 ↗3 June 1918Proposed: payment of $95,715 to O. Monson for building Portola Junior High School
Resolution · proposed · 1928 ↗23 April 1928
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Proposed, approved later: C. L. Wold to build Pacific Heights School on Jackson Street
Resolution · passed · 1922 ↗22 May 1922Payment of $22,342.50 to Anderson & Ringrose for building the Grant School approved
Resolution · passed · 1920 ↗6 December 1920Proposal to pay $12,435.79 to Associated Charities for widows' pensions (outcome not in the record)
Resolution · 1920 ↗18 October 1920Hetch Hetchy suppliers paid, including $5,218.30 to Hercules Powder
Resolution · 1930 ↗16 June 1930Proposal to plan the Great Highway Promenade with a $1.0M state grant (outcome not in the record)
Resolution · 2025 ↗4 March 2025
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