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Alabama St

102 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Alabama St, between 1906 and 2017, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about railroads and spur tracks, housing bonds, streets closed for good.

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What keeps coming up

  • Railroads and spur tracks8Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Housing bonds8How affordable housing is paid for, in the years since the 1980s.
  • Streets closed for good7Streets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.
  • Paving and grading5Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
  • The rules for this street changed4Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.
  • Streets closed for a day3Parades, street fairs, block parties, ground-breakings, festivals.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2010s5
    $3.6M in rent subsidies for Mosaica Family Apartments on Florida Street · 2017
  2. 2000s18
    $25.8M bond sale for Alabama Street Family Apartments approved · 2006
  3. 1990s9
    Former Alabama Street handed to Muni for the Scott maintenance yard · 1990
  4. 1980s6
    Alabama Street west of Treat Avenue finally closed for good · 1989
  5. 1970s3
    Alabama Street closed at lunchtime for St. Peter's School playground · 1973
  6. 1960s3
    Improvement ordered for Ripley Street between Peralta Avenue and Alabama Street · 1965
  7. 1950s6
    Sidewalks to be built on Alabama Street south of Ripley Street · 1956
  8. 1940s3
    Norwich Street work to be paid off in ten yearly installments · 1941
  9. 1930s9
    City to buy land along Army, Florida and Alabama Streets · 1938
  10. 1920s15
    $9,650 to cover part of the Oakwood Street extension cost · 1928
  11. 1910s17
    Railways would have to switch freight cars for connecting lines · 1913
  12. 1900s8
    Henning & Burke paid $3,677.85 for the temporary Lafayette School · 1909

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