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23rd St

120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 23rd St, between 1907 and 1971, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about clinics and hospitals, land bought and sold, railroads and spur tracks.

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What keeps coming up

  • Clinics and hospitals11Clinics, health centres and hospitals.
  • Land bought and sold11Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.
  • Railroads and spur tracks8Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • The rules for this street changed8Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.
  • Paving and grading7Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
  • Schools7School 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
    City takes over the new roadway on Pennsylvania Avenue · 1971
  2. 1960s4
    $250,895 rebuilt Illinois Street between El Dorado and 23rd Street. · 1969
  3. 1950s19
    $10,750 voted to buy Mary Koch's property for a school · 1953
  4. 1940s10
    Sidewalks on Mississippi Street set at twenty-two feet wide · 1943
  5. 1930s13
    Housing Authority buys school land on Arkansas Street for $1,200 · 1939
  6. 1920s35
    Thomas and Elizabeth Packham paid $1,050 for Arkansas Street playground land · 1927
  7. 1910s15
    Sidewalk widths fixed on Corbett Avenue between Caselli and Twenty-third · 1916
  8. 1900s23
    Terrill Bros. paid for the branch library at Page and Cole · 1909

The most notable decisions

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