Bright St
42 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Bright St, between 1913 and 1970, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about streetcars and transit.
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What keeps coming up
- Streetcars and transit4Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1970s2$175,000 voted for a recreation center for the handicapped · 1970
- 1950s6Bright Street improved with about $5,300 of city aid · 1955
- 1940s3Sidewalks ordered on Bright Street south of Randolph Street · 1940
- 1930s5Land bought in Alameda County for the Hetch Hetchy pipe line · 1931
- 1920s18Charles Hancock sells Randolph Street land for the streetcar extension, $854.45 · 1924
- 1910s8City orders Bright Street extended north to Holloway Avenue · 1913
The most notable decisions
$175,000 voted for a recreation center for the handicapped
Ordinance · 15 June 1970 ↗Charles Hancock sells Randolph Street land for the streetcar extension, $854.45
Resolution · 3 November 1924 ↗Land bought in Alameda County for the Hetch Hetchy pipe line
Resolution · 29 June 1931 ↗Charlotte Preble Bailey paid $948.45 to widen Randolph Street
Resolution · 28 January 1924 ↗Stephen A. Turner sells $40 of land to widen Randolph Street
Resolution · 10 December 1923 ↗Edward and Ellen Park sell Randolph Street land for $993.05
Resolution · 5 May 1924 ↗City orders Bright Street extended north to Holloway Avenue
Resolution · 3 November 1913 ↗Bright Street to be extended north to Holloway Avenue
Resolution · 27 October 1913 ↗How far back buildings must sit set on Bright Street
Ordinance · 7 December 1925 ↗Buildings on Bright Street must sit further back from the street
Ordinance · 14 July 1924 ↗
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