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Willard St

39 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Willard St, between 1909 and 2005, 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, parking.

39
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Willard St, between 1909 and 2005
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 1930.7
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.4
ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.4
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.3
PG&E and the utilitiesThe gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.3
Cemeteries and funeralsBurial and the trades around it, at their heaviest as the city closed its cemeteries.2

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2000s2
    Board urges a three-way stop at Frederick and Willard Streets · 2005
  2. 1980s1
    Parking regulations proposed for Willard Street · 1982
  3. 1940s3
    Szatmary land on Frederick Street bought for $44,200 for Kezar Stadium · 1949
  4. 1930s2
    Recreation land near Edward and Rossi Streets transferred for street use · 1937
  5. 1920s23
    Bodies at Odd Fellows Cemetery to be removed within five years · 1924
  6. 1910s7
    City conditionally takes over Laguna Street between Bay and Beach streets · 1910
  7. 1900s1
    Proposed: fire cisterns at Duboce and Sanchez for $36,000 · 1909

The most notable decisions

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  • Land bought from Timothy B. Healy on Frederick Street

    Resolution · 1925 ↗
    17 August 1925

  • City conditionally takes over Laguna Street between Bay and Beach streets

    Ordinance · 1910 ↗
    5 December 1910

  • Proposal to widen and pave Turk Street from Masonic Avenue to Willard Street (outcome not in the record)

    Departmental work · 1927 ↗
    1927

  • Proposal to finish the Potrero Hills roadway between Carolina and Rhode Island Streets (outcome not in the record)

    Departmental work · 1926 ↗
    1926

  • Proposal to pave La Salle Avenue between Phelps and Quint Streets (outcome not in the record)

    Ordinance · 1924 ↗
    22 December 1924

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

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Overview

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