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21st St

67 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 21st St, between 1908 and 1976, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about railroads and spur tracks, paving and grading, parking.

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What keeps coming up

  • Railroads and spur tracks9Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Paving and grading6Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
  • Parking6Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
  • Blasting permits5Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
  • Keeping horses and cows3Until about 1930 the Board voted on whether you could keep animals at your address.
  • Parks and playgrounds3Playgrounds and recreation grounds.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1970s1
    Hotel tax money for the San Francisco Symphony held over hiring · 1976
  2. 1960s2
    Tighter rules on explosives passed for second reading · 1961
  3. 1950s8
    $20,208 paid Harry Becker for the Bartlett Street parking lot · 1951
  4. 1940s1
    City land on Douglass Street near Twenty-first offered for sale · 1946
  5. 1930s2
    Bulkhead order on Twentieth Avenue south of Irving Street repealed · 1930
  6. 1920s21
    Land at Twenty-first and Folsom streets sought for a playground · 1923
  7. 1910s29
    $8,000 set aside for extra work at the Edison School · 1913
  8. 1900s3
    Street levels to be changed on Douglass and Twenty-first streets · 1908

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