1st
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.
- 1970s1Certificates of honor voted for the Sons of Italy Soccer Club · 1972
- 1930s12Gas tax money agreed for Ocean Avenue and Islais Creek bridge · 1936
- 1920s14Arguello Boulevard land to be taken by court for a school · 1927
- 1910s29Budget list sets $200,000 for the maintenance of minors · 1913
- 1900s30City Attorney to seek an offer of land for Lowell High · 1909
The most notable decisions
Budget list sets $200,000 for the maintenance of minors
Motion · 20 May 1913 ↗Arguello Boulevard land to be taken by court for a school
Resolution · 10 January 1927 ↗Sale of school lots west of Arguello Boulevard put to voters
Ordinance · 25 September 1916 ↗Gas tax money agreed for Ocean Avenue and Islais Creek bridge
Resolution · 28 September 1936 ↗State seeks waterfront land near Islais Street for new docks
Resolution · 16 August 1915 ↗State moves to condemn waterfront land for new docks and wharves
Resolution · 12 July 1915 ↗City Attorney to seek an offer of land for Lowell High
Resolution · 26 July 1909 ↗$35,000 set aside to widen California Street from the Presidio
Ordinance · 28 October 1935 ↗Cemeteries and St. Ignatius College to pay for paving Masonic Avenue
Ordinance · 5 October 1925 ↗Washington Street proposed as a boulevard closed to railroads
Ordinance · proposed · 17 May 1909 ↗
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