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Laguna St

120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Laguna St, between 1906 and 2013, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about sewers, railroads and spur tracks, clinics and hospitals.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Laguna St, between 1906 and 2013
Most of them in the 1910s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.8
Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.6
Clinics and hospitalsClinics, health centres and hospitals.6
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.5
War and the militaryThe military in the city, and what the wars did to it.5
ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.4

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2010s9
    $97,339 accepted for the Marina Green bicycle trail · 2011
  2. 2000s3
    Proposed, approved later: $8.9M in state money proposed for repaving city streets · 2007
  3. 1990s1
    Tow-away zone on Turk Street replaced by a red zone · 1996
  4. 1980s3
    $842,700 in federal funds accepted to rebuild Broadway from the Embarcadero · 1988
  5. 1970s3
    Post and Laguna Streets corner rezoned for shops · 1975
  6. 1960s4
    Proposed: Supervisor Tinney proposes adding a Panhandle Parkway study to the resolution · 1962
  7. 1950s3
    Fire Department land on Waller Street sold to First Baptist Church · 1950
  8. 1940s5
    Payment of $17,384 to Emmeline Bates for Yacht Harbor land on Laguna Street approved · 1940
  9. 1930s17
    Voters asked for $815,000 to extend the Marina yacht harbor · 1933
  10. 1920s23
    Proposed: voters deciding on buying Marina Park land for $400,000 · 1929
  11. 1910s34
    Proposal to set aside more Jefferson Square land for the fire alarm station (outcome not in the record) · 1914
  12. 1900s15
    Red Cross allowed refugee cottages on Francisco Street · 1906

The most notable decisions

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  • Proposed: zoning change to two-family housing between Broadway, Fillmore, Laguna and Green

    Ordinance · proposed · 1933 ↗
    5 June 1933
  • Proposal to rezone blocks near Broadway and Fillmore for two-family housing (outcome not in the record)

    Ordinance · 1931 ↗
    21 December 1931
  • Proposal to allow two-family housing on the blocks between Broadway and Green Street (outcome not in the record)

    Ordinance · 1930 ↗
    2 September 1930
  • $17,870.77 paid to Emmeline L. Bates for Yacht Harbor land

    Resolution · 1941 ↗
    3 November 1941
  • Red Cross allowed refugee cottages on Francisco Street

    Resolution · 1906 ↗
    3 December 1906

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