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Iowa St

45 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Iowa St, between 1906 and 2008, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about railroads and spur tracks, blasting permits, paving and grading.

45
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Iowa St, between 1906 and 2008
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What keeps coming up

Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.7
Blasting permitsPermission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.5
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.2
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.2
Streets closed for goodStreets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.2
The rules for this street changedRezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.2

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2000s2
    New zoning proposed across the four Eastern Neighborhoods plan areas · 2008
  2. 1980s2
    Sidewalk width change proposed on Iowa Street between 22nd and 23rd · 1984
  3. 1970s3
    Paving bill confirmed for Twenty-third Street between Indiana and Iowa Streets · 1970
  4. 1960s3
    An adoption vote over Iowa, Indiana and Twenty-sixth Streets · 1960
  5. 1940s4
    City takes over Iowa Street between Eighteenth and Nineteenth Streets · 1944
  6. 1930s9
    Sidewalk widths set on 25th Street between Wisconsin and Iowa Streets · 1939
  7. 1920s7
    Street levels to be changed on Army Street and Pennsylvania Avenue · 1920
  8. 1910s8
    Proposed, approved later: concrete retaining wall to be built on Army Street · 1919
  9. 1900s7
    Proposed: declaring earthquake debris on lots and streets a nuisance · 1906

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

Hudson Ave45 decisions on record, next to it in the rankingPacheco St45 decisions on record, next to it in the rankingGalvez Ave45 decisions on record, next to it in the rankingRedwood St45 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