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Rhode Island St

118 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Rhode Island St, between 1907 and 2011, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about railroads and spur tracks, paving and grading, parking.

118
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Rhode Island St, between 1907 and 2011
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What keeps coming up

Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.26
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.9
ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.7
Liquor licencesBars, shops and restaurants — the licence following the address as it changes hands.5
Oil tanks and boilersFuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.3
Clinics and hospitalsClinics, health centres and hospitals.3

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2010s4
    Bar licence approved for Project One Gallery on Rhode Island Street · 2011
  2. 2000s8
    Proposed, approved later: Grocery store district at 17th and Rhode Island finally passed · 2003
  3. 1990s4
    Parking rules changed on Plymouth Avenue, Buchanan and Willow Streets · 1997
  4. 1980s4
    All-way stop adopted at 20th and Rhode Island Streets · 1987
  5. 1960s2
    David L. Vickery allowed a fence on Rhode Island Street · 1960
  6. 1950s2
    A list of streets including Pine, Mission and Vicente is adopted · 1951
  7. 1940s12
    New street opened and named Bridgeview Drive · 1941
  8. 1930s15
    Proposed: a twenty-five year franchise to burn the city's garbage · 1931
  9. 1920s20
    Proposal to burn garbage at a new De Haro Street incinerator (outcome not in the record) · 1929
  10. 1910s29
    Proposed, approved later: Mayor vetoes the ban on taking back delivered merchandise · 1916
  11. 1900s18
    Payment of $4,500 to Ellen Dore for land beside the Isolation Hospital approved · 1909

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

20th StSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on record22nd StSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordDe Haro StSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordSouthern Heights AveSame block of the map, 7 decisions on record

Overview

The city, drawn from its own recordEvery block, and what the Board of Supervisors decided there