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120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Mission St, between 1906 and 2014, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1930s; often about paving and grading, sewers, railroads and spur tracks.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Mission St, between 1906 and 2014
Most of them in the 1930s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.17
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.14
Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.9
SchoolsSchool sites bought, built and repaired.7
Clinics and hospitalsClinics, health centres and hospitals.7
Blasting permitsPermission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.5

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2010s2
    Proposed, approved later: $8.1M for a Van Ness Avenue office project · 2014
  2. 2000s2
    Proposed: sidewalk width change on Mission Street · 2008
  3. 1990s3
    Proposal to landscape the Mid-Embarcadero music concourse for $984,850 (outcome not in the record) · 1999
  4. 1970s1
    Proposal to seek federal money to improve lighting on Valencia Street (outcome not in the record) · 1975
  5. 1960s2
    State to repay up to $26,000 for repaving Alemany Boulevard · 1965
  6. 1950s4
    George Willard Somers sells Mission Street land for $301,425 · 1957
  7. 1940s4
    Up to $2,400 to take a corner at Army and Mission · 1949
  8. 1930s33
    Payment of $51,302.65 to Frank J. Reilly for the de Young Museum addition approved · 1930
  9. 1920s16
    Payment of $12,100 to Bernadette Botts for the Van Ness Avenue extension approved · 1929
  10. 1910s28
    Payment of $6,150 to Carnahan & Mulford for the Glenn Park School approved · 1913
  11. 1900s25
    Proposed: setting aside the Peabody School lot for a free market · 1907

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

7th StSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordStevenson StSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordMclaren120+ decisions on record, next to it in the rankingMontgomery St120+ 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