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Kearny St

120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Kearny St, between 1907 and 2022, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1900s; often about oil tanks and boilers, railroads and spur tracks, paving and grading.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Kearny St, between 1907 and 2022
Most of them in the 1900s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

Oil tanks and boilersFuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.17
Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.10
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.10
Police stationsPolice stations and the sites bought for them.7
SchoolsSchool sites bought, built and repaired.6
Hotels and rooming housesHotels and rooming houses, concentrated in a handful of neighbourhoods.6

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2020s11
    Failed: petition against the Hilton footbridge over Kearny Street · 2022
  2. 2010s1
  3. 2000s1
    $2.1M for motorized valves on the firefighting water system · 2002
  4. 1990s3
    Taxi zone established on California Street east of Kearny Street · 1991
  5. 1980s3
    Bay and Kearny Streets to become a four-way stop · 1983
  6. 1970s7
    Board funds traffic signals, street paving and an airport roadway · 1972
  7. 1960s5
    Right turns adopted off California Street into Kearny and Davis · 1963
  8. 1940s7
    $350,000 paid for the North Point sewage plant block · 1946
  9. 1930s13
    Proposal to pave and sewer Francisco Street between Kearny and Montgomery (outcome not in the record) · 1936
  10. 1920s11
    Payment of $4,100 to Fannie R. Frisbie for Garfield School land on Greenwich approved · 1921
  11. 1910s17
    $8,000 for school repairs and $7,635.31 for the Union Street school · 1917
  12. 1900s41
    Proposed: Garfield Primary School to be built for up to $125,000 · 1908

The most notable decisions

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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