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Berry St

116 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Berry St, between 1906 and 2019, 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, paving and grading.

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What keeps coming up

  • Railroads and spur tracks16Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Sewers14Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
  • Paving and grading9Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
  • Streetcars and transit7Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
  • Streets closed for good7Streets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.
  • Freeways5The freeways, from the land bought for them to the fights about them.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2010s11
    Mission Bay North rental project put forward for approval · 2014
  2. 2000s22
    New Mission Bay branch library to be bought on 4th Street · 2002
  3. 1990s12
    Ship Clerks Memorial Hall lease revised at Embarcadero and Berry Street · 1995
  4. 1980s6
    I-280 plan gains a study of extending the E Line · 1985
  5. 1960s2
    Rush-hour rule adopted on Mission, Howard and Folsom Streets · 1966
  6. 1950s1
    Phillips and Van Orden allowed parking on the Berry Street sidewalk · 1959
  7. 1930s2
    Sidewalk widths fixed along Berry Street from Second to De Haro · 1939
  8. 1920s34
    Robert L. Dunn presents plans for a bridge to Alameda · 1926
  9. 1910s18
    $3,500 for surveying a water line in the Tuolumne canyon · 1910
  10. 1900s8
    Geary Street railroad bond ordinance sent to the Public Utilities Committee · 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