Carolina St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Carolina St, between 1906 and 2020, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about railroads and spur tracks, paving and grading, sewers.
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What keeps coming up
- Railroads and spur tracks13Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Paving and grading12Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Sewers5Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Streets closed for good4Streets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.
- Oil tanks and boilers2Fuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.
- Clinics and hospitals2Clinics, health centres and hospitals.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2020s3Mission Bay streets to be renamed, with Channel Street becoming Mission Creek · 2020
- 2010s3Carolina Street stairway named Jack Balestreri Way · 2013
- 2000s7Channel Street portion to be swapped with Sunset Scavenger · 2009
- 1990s3Board backs the Mayor on keeping the needle exchange emergency · 1995
- 1980s2Emergency sewer and pavement repairs ordered on Carolina Street · 1980
- 1970s2Macor, Inc. allowed to fence off half of Channel Street · 1974
- 1960s2Eighteenth Street improved and its level changed between Arkansas and Carolina · 1969
- 1950s2$10,750 voted to buy Mary Koch's property for a school · 1953
- 1940s8New street opened and named Bridgeview Drive · 1941
- 1930s15$4,000 paid the Bogdanoffs for a Potrero playground lot · 1931
- 1920s54Block by Carolina and Wisconsin streets opened to light industry · 1928
- 1910s8Army Street to be regraded, with nearby owners paying damages · 1914
- 1900s11Street levels changed on Eighteenth and Wisconsin streets · 1909
The most notable decisions
Board backs the Mayor on keeping the needle exchange emergency
Motion · 27 February 1995 ↗$10,750 voted to buy Mary Koch's property for a school
Resolution · 2 March 1953 ↗$3,000 voted to buy Ray Burke's property for a school
Resolution · 2 March 1953 ↗$4,000 paid the Bogdanoffs for a Potrero playground lot
Resolution · 26 October 1931 ↗Block by Carolina and Wisconsin streets opened to light industry
Ordinance · 20 February 1928 ↗Block at Eighteenth and Carolina Streets rezoned from housing to industry
Ordinance · 24 October 1927 ↗Light industry allowed on the block between De Haro and Carolina
Ordinance · 22 December 1924 ↗$2.4M listed for structural improvements including the Bernal Cut
Ordinance · 28 December 1931 ↗Fred and Emma Slepuznickoff paid for land for a diagonal roadway
Resolution · 22 September 1924 ↗Land paid for the diagonal street near Rhode Island Street
Resolution · 3 March 1924 ↗
Where this comes from
The street holds more than 120 decisions; this page carries the 120 most notable. 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