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120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Lincoln Way, between 1910 and 2017, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about sewers, pg&e and the utilities, paving and grading.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Lincoln Way, between 1910 and 2017
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.27
PG&E and the utilitiesThe gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.12
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.11
ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.9
Streetcars and transitStreetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.7
Clinics and hospitalsClinics, health centres and hospitals.6

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2010s3
    Proposed: limits on cannabis shops in neighborhood shopping districts · 2017
  2. 2000s1
    Proposed: redesign of the Music Concourse garage route to 9th Avenue · 2004
  3. 1990s8
    Failed: proposal to save Muni lines 16X and 73 Lincoln Way · 1990
  4. 1970s3
    Special permission may be required for branch banks and fast-food shops · 1976
  5. 1950s2
    Proposal to rechannel Lincoln Way and Kezar Drive in a $30,000 project (outcome not in the record) · 1959
  6. 1940s9
    Proposal to award sewer and street contracts, including $174,892 on Lincoln Way (outcome not in the record) · 1946
  7. 1930s19
    Money moved to buy right of way for Nineteenth Avenue widening · 1939
  8. 1920s44
    Final $27,000 paid to R. C. Storrie for Twin Peaks Tunnel · 1920
  9. 1910s31
    Proposal to set $200,000 for the maintenance of minors in the budget list (outcome not in the record) · 1913

The most notable decisions

  • Proposal to set $200,000 for the maintenance of minors in the budget list (outcome not in the record)

    Motion · 1913 ↗
    20 May 1913
  • Final $27,000 paid to R. C. Storrie for Twin Peaks Tunnel

    Resolution · 1920 ↗
    20 September 1920
  • Proposal to pay $45,000 to Utah Construction Co. for work on Hetch Hetchy Dam (outcome not in the record)

    Resolution · 1920 ↗
    12 July 1920
  • Special permission may be required for branch banks and fast-food shops

    Resolution · 1976 ↗
    4 October 1976
  • Great Highway esplanade to be built between Fulton and Lincoln Way

    Ordinance · 1929 ↗
    4 February 1929
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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