Charles
22 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Charles, between 1909 and 1980, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about sewers, parking, streets closed for good.
What keeps coming up
- Sewers3Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Parking3Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- Streets closed for good2Streets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.
- Land and buildings split up2A lot split in two, or a building divided into flats that sell separately.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1980s1Permit parking area widened around St. Charles Avenue · 1980
- 1970s3Permit parking area widened around St. Charles Avenue · 1979
- 1960s4Part of Alemany Boulevard closed for good near St. Charles Avenue · 1967
- 1950s3City takes over roadways on Galvez Avenue and Niantic Avenue · 1950
- 1940s5Corner of St. Charles and Niantic Avenues widened and dedicated · 1947
- 1930s1New ordinance keeps old fines and prosecutions in force · 1938
- 1920s4Money set aside for the Stanley Street and Canal Street sewers · 1927
- 1900s1Wong Ling and Quong Ching refused laundry permits near Kearny Street · 1909
The most notable decisions
Corner of St. Charles and Niantic Avenues widened and dedicated
Resolution · 7 July 1947 ↗Southern Pacific paid $10 to let a sewer cross its tracks
Resolution · 21 October 1946 ↗Permit parking area widened around St. Charles Avenue
Resolution · 22 December 1980 ↗Residents-only parking area set around St. Charles Avenue
Resolution · 16 May 1977 ↗Sterling Building Company gives land at St. Charles and Niantic Avenues
Resolution · 27 January 1947 ↗City takes over roadways on Galvez Avenue and Niantic Avenue
Ordinance · 14 February 1950 ↗City takes over new roadways on Industrial and Alameda Streets
Ordinance · 16 August 1948 ↗Money set aside for the Stanley Street and Canal Street sewers
Resolution · 25 July 1927 ↗$7,300 for a Stanley Street sewer extension to Junipero Serra Boulevard
Resolution · 18 July 1927 ↗Part of Alemany Boulevard closed for good near St. Charles Avenue
Ordinance · 9 January 1967 ↗
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