26th St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 26th St, between 1906 and 1993, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about paving and grading, clinics and hospitals, railroads and spur tracks.
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What keeps coming up
- Paving and grading16Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Clinics and hospitals14Clinics, health centres and hospitals.
- Railroads and spur tracks10Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- War and the military10The military in the city, and what the wars did to it.
- PG&E and the utilities6The gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.
- The rules for this street changed6Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1990s1New no-turn-on-red and tow-away rules on Mission and Montgomery Streets · 1993
- 1980s73200 Army Street block to be rezoned for apartments · 1984
- 1950s2City to take over Twenty-sixth Street between Kansas and DeHaro · 1956
- 1940s19Market Street Railway asks to run buses on Castro and Fillmore · 1940
- 1930s15$30,000 set aside to buy land widening Market Street at Twenty-fourth · 1937
- 1920s41Stanford Heights Building Association to be paid $10,500 for playground land · 1924
- 1910s15High pressure fire mains to be laid for $87,000 · 1910
- 1900s20$5,000 set aside for an emergency isolation hospital on Twenty-sixth Street · 1907
The most notable decisions
$5,000 set aside for an emergency isolation hospital on Twenty-sixth Street
Resolution · 27 August 1907 ↗Stanford Heights Building Association to be paid $10,500 for playground land
Resolution · 11 August 1924 ↗$8,500 allowed for land required for the Anza School
Resolution · 11 August 1924 ↗$12,500 paid to Stanford Heights Building Association for playground land
Resolution · 15 October 1923 ↗Market Street Railway asks to run buses on Castro and Fillmore
Ordinance · 4 November 1940 ↗$10,000 of the pesthouse money goes to Twenty-sixth Street Hospital
Resolution · 13 April 1908 ↗$20,000 for a Bay View pesthouse shifted to Twenty-sixth Street Hospital
Resolution · 30 March 1908 ↗A. Guthrie & Co. paid $47,805.47 for Hetch Hetchy aqueduct tunnels
Resolution · 13 July 1927 ↗3200 Army Street block to be rezoned for apartments
Ordinance · 16 April 1984 ↗$900 voted for a six-foot strip between Army and Twenty-sixth Streets
Ordinance · 30 April 1945 ↗
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