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Mendell St

77 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Mendell St, between 1915 and 2006, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about railroads and spur tracks, parking, sewers.

77
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Mendell St, between 1915 and 2006
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What keeps coming up

Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.11
ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.9
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.6
Streets closed for a dayParades, street fairs, block parties, ground-breakings, festivals.4
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.2

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2000s9
    Sidewalk and parking lane on Fillmore Street given over on Saturdays · 2006
  2. 1990s2
    Mendell Street and four others closed for an Earth Day celebration · 1993
  3. 1980s2
    Mendell Street to close to through traffic for 180 days · 1986
  4. 1970s7
    $191,700 to narrow LaSalle Avenue sidewalks finally passed · 1972
  5. 1960s4
    Half of Hudson Avenue set aside weekdays as a preschool playground · 1969
  6. 1950s11
    Newhall and Mendell Streets made one-way at all times · 1953
  7. 1940s11
    Part of Wallace Avenue east of Mendell Street closed for good · 1940
  8. 1930s16
    Sewer easement accepted from Southern Pacific at Mendell and Shoup · 1938
  9. 1920s9
    Street levels changed on Alameda, Treat and Alabama streets · 1928
  10. 1910s6
    Ivy Street sidewalks set at seven feet and three feet · 1917

The most notable decisions

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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

Evans AveSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordNewhall StSame block of the map, 82 decisions on recordBurke AveSame block of the map, 14 decisions on recordTelegraph Hill Blvd71 decisions on record, next to it in the ranking

Overview

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