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Tara St

43 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Tara St, between 1910 and 1988, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about railroads and spur tracks, sewers, blasting permits.

43
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Tara St, between 1910 and 1988
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 1930.8
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.6
Blasting permitsPermission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.2
The rules for this street changedRezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.2

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1980s2
    Stop signs added where San Miguel and Tara meet Mt. Vernon · 1988
  2. 1970s2
    Map approved for widening Tara Street northeast of Niagara Avenue · 1972
  3. 1960s3
    Geneva Avenue lot west of Tara Street adopted · 1964
  4. 1950s4
    $15,000 set aside to extend Geneva Avenue to Tara Street · 1954
  5. 1930s3
    James T. Tobin given 90 more days on Harrison Street · 1930
  6. 1920s23
    Proposal to pay $650 to Augusta Heyman for land to extend Majestic Avenue (outcome not in the record) · 1929
  7. 1910s6
    City declares it needs a new City Hall and Civic Center · 1912

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

San Miguel StSame block of the map, 15 decisions on recordStanford Heights Ave42 decisions on record, next to it in the rankingSilliman St42 decisions on record, next to it in the rankingCrescent Ave41 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