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28 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about California, between 1923 and 1997, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about railroads and spur tracks, freeways, schools.

What keeps coming up

  • Railroads and spur tracks2Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Freeways2The freeways, from the land bought for them to the fights about them.
  • Schools2School sites bought, built and repaired.
  • Protests and appeals2A protest recorded at a hearing, or an appeal against a decision — brought by neighbours and by applicants alike.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1990s1
    Sheriff's deal to screen deputy applicants sent to committee · 1997
  2. 1970s1
    Board asks the state to approve dedicating Mendell Street · 1974
  3. 1960s1
    Southern-Embarcadero Freeway route near Brannan Street, no outcome stated · 1966
  4. 1950s2
    California Highway Commission asked for a new Bayshore Freeway connection · 1958
  5. 1940s6
    Ban on night driving in Golden Gate Park sent to committee · 1943
  6. 1930s6
    State asked to adopt the Divisional Highway through San Francisco · 1936
  7. 1920s11
    City gives $250,000 for a new highway down the peninsula · 1923

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