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Arlington St

48 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Arlington St, between 1910 and 2002, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about railroads and spur tracks, sewers, streetcars and transit.

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What keeps coming up

  • Railroads and spur tracks11Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Sewers4Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
  • Streetcars and transit2Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
  • Paving and grading2Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
  • Land bought and sold2Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2000s2
    Bike lane proposed on San Jose Avenue between Milton and Randall · 2002
  2. 1960s6
    Neighbors give up Melrose Avenue land for Sunnyside Playground · 1964
  3. 1940s4
    $58,000 for drains on Arlington, Burnham and Twenty-fourth Streets · 1943
  4. 1930s3
    City land at Arlington and Wilder streets to be sold · 1937
  5. 1920s21
    $11,000 paid to Joseph J. Powers for land at Bernal Cut · 1928
  6. 1910s12
    Land off Arlington Street declared part of St. Mary's Avenue · 1917

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