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Napoleon St

52 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Napoleon St, between 1914 and 2016, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about railroads and spur tracks, paving and grading, protests and appeals.

52
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Napoleon St, between 1914 and 2016
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 1930.5
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.5
Protests and appealsA protest recorded at a hearing, or an appeal against a decision — brought by neighbours and by applicants alike.4
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.3

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2010s1
    Proposed, approved later: land swap at 160 Napoleon Street · 2016
  2. 1980s2
    Emergency sewer repair on Toland Street south of Napoleon Street · 1988
  3. 1940s3
    $5,800 for two access roads to the Marine Corps depot · 1943
  4. 1920s23
    $238,000 set aside for Bay Shore Boulevard from Potrero to Silver · 1928
  5. 1910s23
    Evans Avenue and Army Street ordered opened and widened · 1918

The most notable decisions

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  • $238,000 set aside for Bay Shore Boulevard from Potrero to Silver

    Resolution · 1928 ↗
    25 June 1928
  • $2,500 each for paving Portola Drive and grading Napoleon Street

    Resolution · 1928 ↗
    25 June 1928
  • Proposal to give Louis J. Cohn $224,347.98 for Bay Shore Boulevard work (outcome not in the record)

    Resolution · 1928 ↗
    18 June 1928
  • Proposal to surface Portola Drive and grade Napoleon Street for $2,500 each (outcome not in the record)

    Resolution · 1928 ↗
    18 June 1928
  • Land deeded by E. W. Newell becomes Napoleon Street

    Ordinance · 1920 ↗
    2 August 1920

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