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Mississippi St

64 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Mississippi St, between 1908 and 1998, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1930s; often about railroads and spur tracks, parking, paving and grading.

64
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Mississippi St, between 1908 and 1998
Most of them in the 1930s · 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 1930.8
ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.3
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.2
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.2
Wires put undergroundDistricts where overhead wires had to come down.2
PG&E and the utilitiesThe gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.2

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1990s2
    Bike lanes adopted on 16th Street, turn rules changed on Broadway · 1995
  2. 1980s1
    Four-hour parking limit set on Mississippi Street, tow-away on Leidesdorff · 1987
  3. 1960s4
    Proposed: buying land for the Marina off-street parking site · 1967
  4. 1950s1
    Blocks of Missouri, Texas and Twenty-third Streets proposed · 1952
  5. 1940s9
    City land at Texas and Mississippi Streets opened to light industry · 1946
  6. 1930s21
    Soule Steel land taken to realign part of Mississippi Street · 1935
  7. 1920s17
    Mayor to sign a Southern Pacific deal for Army Street land · 1920
  8. 1910s4
    Proposal to regrade Army Street, with nearby owners paying damages (outcome not in the record) · 1914
  9. 1900s5
    City takes over the new roadway on Mississippi Street · 1908

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

Texas StSame block of the map, 82 decisions on recordMinnesota St63 decisions on record, next to it in the rankingPlymouth Ave63 decisions on record, next to it in the rankingBrotherhood Way63 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