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Kirkham St

68 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Kirkham St, between 1910 and 2011, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about sewers, paving and grading, environmental review.

68
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Kirkham St, between 1910 and 2011
Most of them in the 1920s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.5
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.4
Environmental reviewNothing before the 1970s, then permanent: the review law arriving and staying.4
ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.3
The rules for this street changedRezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.3
Blasting permitsPermission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.2

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2010s3
    Part of La Playa Street renamed Great Highway · 2011
  2. 2000s13
    Extra building checks made law on the northwest Mount Sutro slope · 2007
  3. 1980s1
    Stop signs set at Dartmouth, Silliman and Kirkham Streets · 1985
  4. 1960s3
    Six parcels bought for up to $127,000 on Fitzgerald and Randolph · 1969
  5. 1950s5
    Proposed, approved later: City to take over the new roadway on Kirkham Street · 1953
  6. 1940s1
    City lien put behind Grace Miskel's mortgage on Eleventh Avenue · 1940
  7. 1930s5
    Street levels to change on Nineteenth Avenue between Irving and Kirkham · 1939
  8. 1920s21
    City to take land on Thirtieth Avenue south of Kirkham · 1928
  9. 1910s16
    Proposal to spend $4,500 to move the Southern Police Station across Clara Street (outcome not in the record) · 1910

The most notable decisions

  • Extra building checks made law on the northwest Mount Sutro slope

    Ordinance · 2007 ↗
    30 January 2007
  • Proposed, approved later: Zoning to change between Fifth and Nineteenth Avenues at Kirkham Street

    Ordinance · passed · 2000 ↗
    30 October 2000
  • Proposal to spend $4,500 to move the Southern Police Station across Clara Street (outcome not in the record)

    Resolution · 1910 ↗
    13 June 1910
  • Proposed, approved later: new Inner Sunset shopping district proposed between Fifth and Nineteenth Avenues

    Ordinance · passed · 2000 ↗
    30 October 2000
  • Six parcels bought for up to $127,000 on Fitzgerald and Randolph

    Resolution · 1969 ↗
    14 October 1969
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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