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86 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 1st, between 1906 and 1972, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1900s; often about oil tanks and boilers, paving and grading, sewers.

What keeps coming up

  • Oil tanks and boilers6Fuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.
  • Paving and grading6Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
  • Sewers5Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
  • Railroads and spur tracks4Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Wires put underground4Districts where overhead wires had to come down.
  • Schools3School sites bought, built and repaired.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1970s1
    Certificates of honor voted for the Sons of Italy Soccer Club · 1972
  2. 1930s12
    Gas tax money agreed for Ocean Avenue and Islais Creek bridge · 1936
  3. 1920s14
    Arguello Boulevard land to be taken by court for a school · 1927
  4. 1910s29
    Budget list sets $200,000 for the maintenance of minors · 1913
  5. 1900s30
    City Attorney to seek an offer of land for Lowell High · 1909

The most notable decisions

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