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Leavenworth St

120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Leavenworth St, between 1906 and 2004, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about oil tanks and boilers, fire stations, railroads and spur tracks.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Leavenworth St, between 1906 and 2004
Most of them in the 1910s · 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.18
Fire stationsEngine houses and fire stations.14
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.6
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.6
ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.6

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2000s2
    Proposed, approved later: Bus and taxi lanes proposed on O'Farrell and Geary Streets · 2004
  2. 1990s2
    Proposed, approved later: Renewal of the New Conservatory Theatre Center lease · 1998
  3. 1980s1
    Sewer to be restored on Bush Street between Hyde and Leavenworth · 1988
  4. 1970s1
    Traffic signal urged at Bay and Leavenworth Streets · 1978
  5. 1960s5
    Proposed, approved later: parking meters to be extended to parts of Polk and Leavenworth Streets · 1968
  6. 1950s2
    Joseph and Henrietta Williams allowed driveways on Lombard Street · 1951
  7. 1940s3
    Payment of $16,500 to Sophie Lerche and the Guaragnas $20,000 for tunnel land approved · 1949
  8. 1930s17
    $2.4M listed for structural improvements including the Bernal Cut · 1931
  9. 1920s26
    $145,000 paid to Marguerite E. Marchand for Civic Center land · 1924
  10. 1910s37
    Tax rate set, with half a cent for sanitary work · 1910
  11. 1900s24
    Proposed: more money for the engine house at Green and Leavenworth streets · 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

See also

Streets near it on the record

Fulton StSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordHyde StSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordMcallister StSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordUnited Nations PlzSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on record

Overview

The city, drawn from its own recordEvery block, and what the Board of Supervisors decided there