Banks St
38 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Banks St, between 1910 and 1988, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about schools, land bought and sold, paving and grading.
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What keeps coming up
- Schools21School sites bought, built and repaired.
- Land bought and sold7Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.
- Paving and grading3Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Sewers3Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1980s5Stemberga's Banks Street wall approved after the first vote was rescinded · 1988
- 1970s1Paving bill confirmed for Banks Street south of Crescent Avenue · 1973
- 1920s16Land at Banks and Prentiss streets bought for a school · 1927
- 1910s16$900 set aside to pay Giovanni Tomasello for school land · 1915
The most notable decisions
Land at Banks and Prentiss streets bought for a school
Resolution · 5 July 1927 ↗Mollie Canter Anderson paid for school land on Banks Street
Resolution · 5 July 1927 ↗Thomas Webb's land on Banks Street bought for schools, $3,300
Resolution · 13 June 1927 ↗Knute Anderson's Banks Street land bought for $6,000 for a school
Resolution · 16 May 1927 ↗Salvatore Zanca paid for school land at Banks and Tompkins
Resolution · 21 March 1927 ↗Land on Prentiss Street to be taken for a school
Resolution · 21 March 1927 ↗$900 set aside to pay Giovanni Tomasello for school land
Resolution · 27 September 1915 ↗City buys more land on Banks Street for a school
Resolution · 27 September 1915 ↗$11,312 set aside to pay P. Broderick for school land
Resolution · 20 September 1915 ↗$2,500 set aside to pay Henry Von Hofen for school land
Resolution · 20 September 1915 ↗
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