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120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Lyon St, between 1906 and 2008, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about paving and grading, war and the military, oil tanks and boilers.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Lyon St, between 1906 and 2008
Most of them in the 1920s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.8
War and the militaryThe military in the city, and what the wars did to it.8
Oil tanks and boilersFuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.7
Taxis and garagesTaxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.7
ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.7
Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.6

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2000s14
    Proposed: emergency fund to stop foreclosures · 2007
  2. 1990s5
    Gift of $12,315.70 from the Jewetts for Lyon Street Garden upkeep · 1997
  3. 1980s2
    Kaiser Foundation Hospital allowed earthquake supports under O'Farrell Street sidewalk · 1989
  4. 1970s1
    Federal money sought to rebuild Geary Boulevard between Gough and Lyon · 1976
  5. 1960s6
    Proposed: asking Congress to protest the Army's refusal over the Presidio site · 1969
  6. 1940s6
    Air raid wardens report on dim-out patrols and a citywide census · 1945
  7. 1930s18
    Proposed: barring warehouses and airplane landings north of Jackson Street · 1930
  8. 1920s36
    Payment of $11,625 to Albert R. Herman for Palace of Fine Arts land approved · 1927
  9. 1910s18
    Van Ness Avenue to be paved in front of government property · 1914
  10. 1900s14
    City to remove Rudolph Hermann's obstructions and open Lyon Street · 1909

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

Geary BlvdSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordPresidio AveSame block of the map, 91 decisions on recordLombard St120+ decisions on record, next to it in the rankingMarina Blvd120+ 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