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Polk St

120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Polk St, between 1906 and 2016, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about land bought and sold, clinics and hospitals, sewers.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Polk St, between 1906 and 2016
Most of them in the 1910s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

Land bought and soldLand changing hands with the city on one side of it.20
Clinics and hospitalsClinics, health centres and hospitals.12
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.9
SchoolsSchool sites bought, built and repaired.9
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.6
Fire stationsEngine houses and fire stations.6

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2010s1
    Proposed: exempting school fundraiser parking events from the parking tax · 2016
  2. 2000s1
    Proposed, approved later: One-hour meters on the 1900 block of Polk Street would go · 2007
  3. 1990s2
    Proposed, approved later: A. [name withheld] to donate two boilers to the Homeless Multiservice Center · 1992
  4. 1980s1
    $100,000 sought from the Mayor for Community United Against Violence · 1984
  5. 1970s2
    $32,900 voted for engineering on the Polk Street district project · 1978
  6. 1940s5
    City land at Polk and McAllister Streets to be leased out · 1944
  7. 1930s8
    Payment of $16,500 to Loretta O'Hara for the Civic Center health building site approved · 1930
  8. 1920s13
    Proposed: Galileo High School to be built at Bay and Polk streets · 1920
  9. 1910s71
    City sets aside $2,500 for plague suppression work · 1915
  10. 1900s16
    City Attorney to seek land for the Adams and John Swett schools · 1909

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

Golden Gate AveSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordTurk StSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordVan Ness AveSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordPine 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