16th St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 16th St, between 1906 and 2012, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about railroads and spur tracks, schools, land bought and sold.
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What keeps coming up
- Railroads and spur tracks26Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Schools15School sites bought, built and repaired.
- Land bought and sold13Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.
- Sewers4Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Oil tanks and boilers3Fuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.
- Blasting permits2Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2010s3City takes over the new sewer main under Owens Street · 2012
- 1990s2$100,000 emergency repair to the Owens Street force main · 1995
- 1970s1Federal money sought for crossing gates at Third and Sixteenth Streets · 1978
- 1960s4City takes over new roadways on University and Sixteenth Streets · 1964
- 1950s4City to pay $17,327.07 for Sixteenth Street work instead of owners · 1958
- 1940s7Garbage rate of $0.90 a ton if the rail ramp closes · 1946
- 1930s6Garbage disposal franchise to go to the Sanitary Fill Company · 1935
- 1920s59Lillie Van Damme paid $10,200 for Edison School land · 1925
- 1910s11Masonic Avenue to be widened to Levant Street, estimated $4,850 · 1917
- 1900s23Julian Avenue lot rented for the temporary Mission Grammar School · 1908
The most notable decisions
Garbage disposal franchise to go to the Sanitary Fill Company
Resolution · 27 May 1935 ↗Lillie Van Damme paid $10,200 for Edison School land
Resolution · 24 February 1925 ↗John Thill's Harlow Street lot bought for a school for $6,500
Resolution · 15 December 1924 ↗F. K. Falch paid for Dehon Street land for a school
Resolution · 24 November 1924 ↗Dominic O'Kane paid $8,000 for Harlow Street land for Everett School
Resolution · 17 November 1924 ↗Margaret Purcell's Harlow Street lot bought for a school for $2,100
Resolution · 10 November 1924 ↗F. K. Falch paid for Dehon Street land bought for schools
Resolution · 10 November 1924 ↗Dominic O'Kane paid for Harlow Street land for Everett School
Resolution · 3 November 1924 ↗Carlo Marelli and Axel Falk paid for Everett School land
Resolution · 27 October 1924 ↗John Joseph Welsh's Harlow Street land bought for a school, $18,500
Resolution · 27 October 1924 ↗
Where this comes from
The street holds more than 120 decisions; this page carries the 120 most notable. 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