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Hampshire St

120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Hampshire St, between 1907 and 2001, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about streetcars and transit, sewers, railroads and spur tracks.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Hampshire St, between 1907 and 2001
Most of them in the 1910s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

Streetcars and transitStreetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.12
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.12
Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.10
ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.9
Parks and playgroundsPlaygrounds and recreation grounds.9
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.8

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2000s6
    Speed humps for Hampshire Street adopted · 2000
  2. 1990s8
    Stop signs established at 25th and Hampshire and Garfield and Vernon · 1998
  3. 1980s1
    24th and Harrison Streets to close for a street festival · 1981
  4. 1970s3
    Speed limit set at 25 miles an hour on Army Street · 1974
  5. 1960s1
    Title Insurance and Trust allowed a parking lot on Hampshire Street · 1967
  6. 1950s5
    Proposed: setting aside the Alameda-York Parking Plaza between York and Hampshire Streets · 1958
  7. 1930s14
    Army Street widened across playground land west of Potrero Avenue · 1933
  8. 1920s19
    University of California Regents sell Potrero Avenue land for a hospital · 1924
  9. 1910s48
    Payment of $12,000 to George Ryan for playground land at Army Street approved · 1919
  10. 1900s15
    Proposal to pay $6,225 to Lange & Bergstrom for the Winfield Scott School (outcome not in the record) · 1908

The most notable decisions

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  • Payment of $18,900 to Ocean Shore Railroad for playground land on Army Street approved

    Resolution · passed · 1917 ↗
    17 December 1917

  • Proposal to pay Ocean Shore Railroad $18,900 for playground land (outcome not in the record)

    Resolution · 1917 ↗
    10 December 1917

  • Board agrees to buy a $13,939 playground lot on Army Street

    Resolution · 1917 ↗
    12 November 1917

  • Proposal for George and Mary Ryan to sell land for a Mission District playground (outcome not in the record)

    Resolution · 1917 ↗
    25 June 1917

  • P. F. Tamony's land bought for $25,000 for the Mission Playground

    Resolution · 1917 ↗
    5 March 1917

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

See also

Streets near it on the record

Mariposa StSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordPotrero AveSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordHaight St120+ decisions on record, next to it in the rankingHarding120+ decisions on record, next to it in the ranking

Overview

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