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115 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Kansas St, between 1907 and 1989, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about railroads and spur tracks, paving and grading, sewers.

115
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Kansas St, between 1907 and 1989
Most of them in the 1910s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.22
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.20
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.13
Blasting permitsPermission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.8
PG&E and the utilitiesThe gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.4
War and the militaryThe military in the city, and what the wars did to it.3

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1980s4
    Public Works urged to drop the tow-away zone on Army Street · 1984
  2. 1970s1
    Kansas Street to close for a California Association for A.C.T. fundraiser · 1979
  3. 1960s2
    Angle parking allowed on Kansas Street between Army and Marin Streets · 1969
  4. 1950s2
    Public Works yard to be rebuilt at Army and Kansas Streets · 1958
  5. 1940s9
    Bids taken to lease city land on Kansas Street · 1943
  6. 1930s13
    Payment of $3,610 to Persis B. Gray for land for Telegraph Hill Park approved · 1933
  7. 1920s22
    Board declares the new streets open to the public · 1923
  8. 1910s38
    City sets aside $10,000 for the Spring Valley Water takeover · 1913
  9. 1900s24
    Payment of $3,677.85 to Henning & Burke for the temporary Lafayette School approved · 1909

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