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Alameda St

120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Alameda St, between 1906 and 2004, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about railroads and spur tracks, blasting permits, paving and grading.

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What keeps coming up

  • Railroads and spur tracks34Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Blasting permits11Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
  • Paving and grading9Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
  • Parking5Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
  • Street lights3Lighting a street, block by block.
  • Streets closed for good3Streets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2000s2
    Parking changes on Howard, Taylor and Masonic, including Trader Joe's frontage · 2004
  2. 1990s9
    Ban on cigarette vending machines sent to committee · 1996
  3. 1980s5
    Street levels to change on Florida Street · 1986
  4. 1960s1
    Continental Baking allowed a retaining wall and driveway in York Street · 1965
  5. 1950s3
    Alameda-York Parking Plaza set aside between York and Hampshire Streets · 1958
  6. 1940s8
    Parking banned day and night on the Third Street viaduct · 1943
  7. 1930s19
    City block on De Haro Street to be leased out · 1937
  8. 1920s19
    $9,650 to cover part of the Oakwood Street extension cost · 1928
  9. 1910s43
    Railways must carry each other's freight cars on spur tracks · 1916
  10. 1900s11
    Land near Hyde Street added to Spring Valley Grammar School · 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