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98 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about York St, between 1906 and 2002, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about parking, streetcars and transit, paving and grading.

98
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about York St, between 1906 and 2002
Most of them in the 1910s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.9
Streetcars and transitStreetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.4
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.4
Land bought and soldLand changing hands with the city on one side of it.4
Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.3
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. 2000s5
    Permit parking added on York, Hampshire, Castro and other streets · 2002
  2. 1990s4
    U-turns banned on Army Street at Bryant, Harrison and York · 1990
  3. 1980s4
    Stop signs established on 22nd and 23rd Streets at York · 1987
  4. 1970s4
    York Street closed for Bryant Elementary School's playground during school hours · 1970
  5. 1960s2
    Part of York Street between Alameda and Fifteenth closed for good · 1969
  6. 1950s6
    Vacant land bought between Hampshire and York Streets near Alameda · 1950
  7. 1940s6
    Board orders part of York Street closed for good · 1940
  8. 1930s10
    Proposal to grade Alameda Street between Potrero Avenue and York Street (outcome not in the record) · 1930
  9. 1920s17
    Payment of $70,000 to Olof and Charles Monson for the Mariposa Street land approved · 1925
  10. 1910s25
    Land at York and Mariposa streets bought for a streetcar barn · 1914
  11. 1900s15
    $200 paid for a strip of York Street land for widening · 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

Peralta AveSame block of the map, 54 decisions on recordFranconia StSame block of the map, 29 decisions on recordMontcalm StSame block of the map, 22 decisions on recordMullen AveSame block of the map, 20 decisions on record

Overview

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