3rd St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 3rd St, between 1906 and 2025, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about sewers, railroads and spur tracks, pg&e and the utilities.
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What keeps coming up
- Sewers14Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Railroads and spur tracks12Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- PG&E and the utilities9The gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.
- Paving and grading7Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Clinics and hospitals6Clinics, health centres and hospitals.
- Freeways4The freeways, from the land bought for them to the fights about them.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2020s4Sidewalk widths set for the new Mission Rock streets · 2025
- 2010s8Emergency sewer repair on Third Street costing up to $700,000 · 2019
- 2000s3$22.4M for Third Street rail work sent to committee · 2003
- 1970s2Board funds traffic signals, street paving and an airport roadway · 1972
- 1950s3Mayor asked to seek an international exposition in San Francisco, 1962 · 1957
- 1940s9John Sheehy paid $6,750 for land for McLaren Park · 1941
- 1930s16$20,000 paid to Coast Day Company for Lafayette Park land · 1938
- 1920s32Bills paid for Steinhart Aquarium and Portola Drive street work · 1928
- 1910s35Carnahan & Mulford paid $6,150 for the Glenn Park School · 1913
- 1900s8$4627 to Frank Simonart for grading the school lot at Twentieth and Kentucky · 1906
The most notable decisions
Bills paid for Steinhart Aquarium and Portola Drive street work
Resolution · 16 July 1928 ↗Carnahan & Mulford paid $6,150 for the Glenn Park School
Resolution · 14 October 1913 ↗John Sheehy paid $6,750 for land for McLaren Park
Resolution · 28 April 1941 ↗$20,000 paid to Coast Day Company for Lafayette Park land
Resolution · 28 November 1938 ↗John Quinlan paid for Bay View recreation land at Third Street
Resolution · 25 June 1923 ↗J. J. Von Aspern's land on Carroll Avenue bought for recreation
Resolution · 25 June 1923 ↗$11,250 paid for land for the James Lick school yard
Resolution · 18 June 1923 ↗Block at Third Street and Yosemite Avenue rezoned for light industry
Ordinance · 2 June 1924 ↗$22.4M for Third Street rail work sent to committee
Resolution · in progress · 29 July 2003 ↗Mayor asked to seek an international exposition in San Francisco, 1962
Ordinance · 4 November 1957 ↗
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