13th
67 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 13th, between 1906 and 1951, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about paving and grading, sewers, streetcars and transit.
What keeps coming up
- Paving and grading14Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Sewers7Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Streetcars and transit5Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- Schools5School sites bought, built and repaired.
- PG&E and the utilities5The gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.
- Railroads and spur tracks4Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
The most notable decisions
$55,959 to build Engine House No. 12 at Drumm and Commercial
Resolution · 11 May 1914 ↗Columbus School addition ordered on Thirteenth Avenue
Ordinance · 23 May 1921 ↗Land sought on Thirteenth Avenue for the Sutro School site
Resolution · proposed · 9 November 1908 ↗Bakewell & Brown paid $15,000 for their work on City Hall
Resolution · 20 April 1914 ↗$4,500 set aside to buy land near Mountain Lake Park
Resolution · 30 March 1914 ↗Spring Valley Water Company to sell the city land for $4,500
Resolution · 23 March 1914 ↗Crossings of Geary Street and Parker Avenue to be paved
Ordinance · 3 November 1913 ↗Sidewalks on Funston and Fourteenth avenues set at fifteen feet
Ordinance · 2 April 1917 ↗Sidewalks set at fifteen feet on Thirteenth and Fourteenth Avenues
Ordinance · 12 April 1915 ↗City takes over the new roadway on Cabrillo Street
Ordinance · 18 April 1913 ↗
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