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Arkansas St

60 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Arkansas St, between 1907 and 2003, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1930s; often about blasting permits, railroads and spur tracks, parking.

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What keeps coming up

  • Blasting permits8Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
  • Railroads and spur tracks6Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Parking5Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
  • Parks and playgrounds4Playgrounds and recreation grounds.
  • Permission to open something4A shop, a clinic, a wrecking yard, a dispensary: uses that needed asking for.
  • Paving and grading2Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2000s2
    New stop signs for four corners, including 20th and Arkansas · 2003
  2. 1990s7
    Sixty-one flats and twenty-nine live-work units upheld on Arkansas Street · 1991
  3. 1970s1
    Rule adopted for Arkansas Street and Beach Street segments · 1970
  4. 1960s2
    Board sits as an equalization board for late assessments. · 1967
  5. 1950s6
    City takes over the Madera Street roadway between Wisconsin and Arkansas · 1950
  6. 1940s4
    Madera Street opened between Wisconsin and Arkansas Streets · 1942
  7. 1930s19
    School land on Arkansas Street bought from Western Pacific for $750 · 1931
  8. 1920s9
    Thomas and Elizabeth Packham paid $1,050 for Arkansas Street playground land · 1927
  9. 1910s7
    Chas. Wright paid $1,455 for plumbing at the Oriental School · 1915
  10. 1900s3
    Western Pacific Railway allowed to blast tunnels under Arkansas Street · 1908

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