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Boutwell St

26 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Boutwell St, between 1914 and 1961, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about land bought and sold, railroads and spur tracks.

Open Boutwell St on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

  • Land bought and sold5Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.
  • Railroads and spur tracks3Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1960s2
    Street levels on Boutwell Street proposed for change · 1961
  2. 1950s4
    Sidewalk widths dropped on Boutwell Street beside Islais Creek Channel · 1953
  3. 1930s4
    Alexander Neil buys city land on Boutwell Street for $450 · 1937
  4. 1920s12
    Two-family housing allowed on Boutwell Street north of Augusta Street · 1928
  5. 1910s4
    Order to improve Silver Avenue repealed · 1914

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