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Excelsior

1,125 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Excelsior, between 1907 and 2024, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about paving and grading, sewers, street lights.

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Its busiest streets

Mission St120+ · Silver Ave120+ · Excelsior Ave46 · Paris St25 · London St17 · Madrid St17 · Athens St14 · Vienna St9

What keeps coming up

  • Paving and grading142Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
  • Sewers92Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
  • Street lights60Lighting a street, block by block.
  • Blasting permits23Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
  • Streets closed for good8Streets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2020s10
    5801 Mission Street special permission voted on, findings to follow · 2021
  2. 2010s29
    $18.5M loan approved for affordable housing at 4840 Mission Street · 2019
  3. 2000s31
    Subdivision map approved for forty-eight flats at 1888 Geneva Avenue · 2009
  4. 1990s31
    Shops allowed on Silver Avenue between Mission and Craut Streets · 1999
  5. 1980s27
    Southeast Mental Health offices to stay at 4190 Mission Street · 1987
  6. 1970s37
    Prague Street made one-way eastbound between Drake and Cordova Streets · 1977
  7. 1960s23
    Fifteen corners marked, most of them along Columbus Avenue · 1965
  8. 1950s82
    $6,500 paid American Seating Company for the Thirteenth Street widening · 1951
  9. 1940s53
    $2,100 paid to Linda Giubbiny to widen Trumbull Street · 1947
  10. 1930s80
    Market Street Railway allowed to run buses along Geneva Avenue · 1937
  11. 1920s309
    Market Street Railway given a new bus route off Mission Street · 1928
  12. 1910s376
    $143,767.80 to build the Potrero Avenue municipal streetcar line · 1914
  13. 1900s37
    San Francisco Gas and Electric told to install new arc lamps · 1909

The most notable decisions

Where this comes from

This page carries the 12 most notable decisions of each decade, 149 of the 1,125 on record; the rest are on its streets. 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