11th St
93 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 11th St, between 1908 and 1994, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about fire stations, streetcars and transit, paving and grading.
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What keeps coming up
- Fire stations13Engine houses and fire stations.
- Streetcars and transit12Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- Paving and grading9Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Clinics and hospitals7Clinics, health centres and hospitals.
- Keeping horses and cows6Until about 1930 the Board voted on whether you could keep animals at your address.
- Wires put underground5Districts where overhead wires had to come down.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1990s4More time sought to award the Market Street track contract · 1994
- 1980s1Folsom Street closed for the Folsom Street Fair · 1988
- 1970s1An adopted measure over sidewalks on Bryant and Harrison Streets · 1975
- 1950s6Small triangle of land near Harrison and Eleventh Streets bought · 1951
- 1940s6Daytime left turns banned along Market Street to Eleventh Street · 1940
- 1930s1No left turns on Market Street from seven to six · 1931
- 1920s25O. Monson awarded $51,370 to build Engine House No. 29 · 1924
- 1910s45$26,125 paid to Contra Costa Construction for the Church Street railway · 1916
- 1900s4Colonial Packing allowed a canning boiler at 818 Eleventh Street · 1908
The most notable decisions
$26,125 paid to Contra Costa Construction for the Church Street railway
Resolution · 24 July 1916 ↗O. Monson awarded $51,370 to build Engine House No. 29
Resolution · 12 May 1924 ↗Firehouse for Engine 29 to be built on Division Street
Ordinance · 7 April 1924 ↗Fire Department drill tower to be built on Division Street
Resolution · 27 March 1922 ↗Pelton Water Wheel Co. paid $9,407 for Lower Cherry River machinery
Resolution · 15 January 1917 ↗$180,000 to pave streets around the Civic Center and the Exposition
Resolution · 28 September 1914 ↗High pressure fire mains to be laid for $87,000
Ordinance · 18 July 1910 ↗$9,900 to rebuild Bryant Street and $6,025.29 to equip the Preventorium
Resolution · 29 August 1927 ↗City bills paid, including $26,125 for the Church Street streetcar line
Resolution · 31 July 1916 ↗$16,490 for electrical work at Polytechnic High School
Resolution · 16 November 1914 ↗
Where this comes from
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