18th St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 18th St, between 1906 and 1994, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about schools, railroads and spur tracks, land bought and sold.
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What keeps coming up
- Schools15School sites bought, built and repaired.
- Railroads and spur tracks13Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Land bought and sold7Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.
- Paving and grading6Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Streetcars and transit4Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- Churches4Congregations, and the buildings they asked the city about.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1990s1Parking ban established on Eighteenth Street at Castro Street · 1994
- 1980s3Showplace Square sign district drawn onto the Zoning Map · 1988
- 1960s4Portola Drive and Market Street widened, Enterprise Street opened · 1963
- 1950s6$175,000 allowed to buy land widening Market Street to Portola Drive · 1956
- 1940s3City takes over the new roadway on Wisconsin Street · 1940
- 1930s8Mary Zwyssig and neighbors deed the city the new Linda Street · 1939
- 1920s21Block at Eighteenth and Carolina Streets rezoned from housing to industry · 1927
- 1910s40$3,500 paid to Mary Frances Flaherty for Twin Peaks tunnel land · 1914
- 1900s34James A. Symon paid for land for the Mission High School · 1909
The most notable decisions
James A. Symon paid for land for the Mission High School
Resolution · 26 November 1909 ↗David Dorward's land accepted for the Mission High School site
Resolution · 1 November 1909 ↗James A. Symon's land accepted for the Mission High School site
Resolution · 11 October 1909 ↗Ida G. Schade's land bought for $9,000 for Mission High School
Resolution · 4 October 1909 ↗Eva Tapper's land accepted for the Mission High School site
Resolution · 21 June 1909 ↗William and Annie Herbert paid $17,000 for Mission High School land
Resolution · 14 June 1909 ↗Amelia Dorland and Leonora Souc paid $6,300 for Mission High School land
Resolution · 14 June 1909 ↗William and Annie Herbert sell Mission High School land for $17,000
Resolution · 7 June 1909 ↗Catholic Apostolic Church paid $7,800 for Mission High School land
Resolution · 26 April 1909 ↗Catholic Apostolic Church sells Mission High School land for $7,800
Resolution · 10 April 1909 ↗
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