Bowdoin St
34 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Bowdoin St, between 1907 and 1977, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1950s; often about the rules for this street changed, streets closed for good.
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What keeps coming up
- The rules for this street changed4Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.
- Streets closed for good2Streets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1970s3Part of Gaven Street closed for good near Bowdoin Street · 1977
- 1960s3Homes must be heated to seventy degrees under new city rule · 1965
- 1950s19An eight per cent share bought in two Harkness Avenue lots · 1952
- 1940s1Street levels to change on Bowdoin Street between Woolsey and Dwight · 1949
- 1930s2Dartmouth Street between Felton and Burrows to be closed · 1930
- 1920s4Paving and curbs ordered at Coleridge Street and Esmeralda Avenue · 1926
- 1900s2Jacob Heyman Company gives land to open Hale and Bowdoin Streets · 1907
The most notable decisions
Homes must be heated to seventy degrees under new city rule
Motion · 26 July 1965 ↗Map approved for extending Bowdoin Street south of Mansell Street
Resolution · passed · 13 February 1962 ↗An eight per cent share bought in two Harkness Avenue lots
Resolution · 30 June 1952 ↗A fifteen per cent share bought in two Harkness Avenue lots
Resolution · 30 June 1952 ↗Vacant lots bought on Bowdoin Street near Harkness Avenue
Resolution · 24 March 1952 ↗Vacant lots bought at Bowdoin Street and Harkness Avenue
Resolution · 28 January 1952 ↗Lots bought at Delta Street, Harkness Avenue and Bowdoin Street
Resolution · 14 January 1952 ↗Jacob Heyman Company gives land to open Hale and Bowdoin Streets
Ordinance · 25 November 1907 ↗City takes over Boylston Street and part of Gaven Street
Ordinance · 3 February 1958 ↗Bowdoin Street to be paved with $4,000 in city aid
Ordinance · 10 March 1958 ↗
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