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Michigan St

69 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Michigan St, between 1910 and 2006, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about railroads and spur tracks, environmental review, streets closed for good.

69
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Michigan St, between 1910 and 2006
Most of them in the 1920s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.12
Environmental reviewNothing before the 1970s, then permanent: the review law arriving and staying.6
Streets closed for goodStreets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.5
ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.3
War and the militaryThe military in the city, and what the wars did to it.3
Blasting permitsPermission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.2

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2000s6
    Parts of 26th, Michigan, Georgia and Louisiana Streets given up · 2003
  2. 1970s3
    City takes over Twenty-fourth Street out to Warm Water Cove · 1977
  3. 1960s1
    Failed: proposal to pave Twenty-Fourth, Michigan and Twenty-Fifth Streets · 1966
  4. 1950s4
    Deal with the state on streets moved for the Bayshore Freeway · 1952
  5. 1940s4
    Proposal to widen 24th Street from Michigan to Louisiana and Melrose Avenue (outcome not in the record) · 1942
  6. 1920s38
    Proposed: more street cars for the new Judah Street line · 1927
  7. 1910s13
    Lena Place to be closed for Bethlehem Shipbuilding · 1918

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

Griffith St69 decisions on record, next to it in the rankingMissouri St69 decisions on record, next to it in the ranking44th Ave69 decisions on record, next to it in the rankingMaiden Ln68 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