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Cambridge St

38 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Cambridge St, between 1908 and 2014, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1950s; often about freeways, land bought and sold, schools.

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What keeps coming up

  • Freeways6The freeways, from the land bought for them to the fights about them.
  • Land bought and sold3Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.
  • Schools2School sites bought, built and repaired.
  • Environmental review2Nothing before the 1970s, then permanent: the review law arriving and staying.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2010s6
    Forty-five day freeze proposed on institutional changes in University Mound · 2014
  2. 1960s2
    Southern Freeway deal signed with the state at Havelock Street · 1961
  3. 1950s11
    Cambridge Street land bought from Gwendolen B. Wright for McLaren Park · 1954
  4. 1940s6
    Land traded with Ray T. Burke for John McLaren Park · 1947
  5. 1930s3
    California Pacific Title paid for two McLaren Park parcels · 1930
  6. 1920s6
    City takes land on Pioche Street for a school · 1925
  7. 1910s2
    O. Monson paid $2,280 for the Cambridge and Silliman school · 1918
  8. 1900s2
    Joseph B. Keenan sells school land on Cambridge Street for $8,250 · 1908

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