Qipu
The city

Street

Lyell St

27 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Lyell St, between 1912 and 1970, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about paving and grading, railroads and spur tracks, sewers.

27
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Lyell St, between 1912 and 1970
Most of them in the 1910s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.4
Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.2
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.2
ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.2

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1970s1
    Improvement authorized for Bosworth Street and O'Shaughnessy Boulevard · 1970
  2. 1950s5
    Rousseau and Lyell Streets set one way, adopted · 1954
  3. 1940s1
    Emily Openshaw's aid lien on Lyell Street put behind a mortgage · 1940
  4. 1930s3
    Map approved for extending Lyell Street to the proposed Alemany Boulevard · 1931
  5. 1920s5
    Therese Thomson sells land to extend Lyell Street for $1,000 · 1928
  6. 1910s12
    City land dedicated to widen Lyell Street · 1918

The most notable decisions

See 5 more documents

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

See also

Streets near it on the record

Rotteck StSame block of the map, 7 decisions on recordLevant St26 decisions on record, next to it in the rankingOlney Ave26 decisions on record, next to it in the rankingKirkwood Ave26 decisions on record, next to it in the ranking

Overview

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