Chenery St
97 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Chenery St, between 1907 and 2012, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about schools, land bought and sold, railroads and spur tracks.
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What keeps coming up
- Schools19School sites bought, built and repaired.
- Land bought and sold17Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.
- Railroads and spur tracks7Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Sewers5Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2010s4Zoning rules set for the Glen Park Area Plan · 2012
- 2000s2$982,033 federal grant sought to house chronic alcoholics · 2006
- 1990s3Four-way stop adopted at Roanoke and Chenery Streets · 1994
- 1980s1Removing traffic bumps on Chenery Street sent to committee · 1980
- 1970s1Heavy trucks barred from Elk Street · 1971
- 1950s4Brompton and Lippard Avenues made one-way in opposite directions · 1953
- 1930s14Frank and Josephine Cusimano give up land to widen Chenery Street · 1930
- 1920s17Land next to the Fairmount School to be taken by condemnation · 1928
- 1910s50$1,850 paid to Michael and Bridget Gilbride for Fairmount School land · 1917
- 1900s1Sheriff's van hit by an electric car on Chenery Street · 1907
The most notable decisions
Land next to the Fairmount School to be taken by condemnation
Resolution · 9 July 1928 ↗$1,850 paid to Michael and Bridget Gilbride for Fairmount School land
Resolution · 16 July 1917 ↗$2,500 paid to John and Bridget Brennan for Fairmount School land
Resolution · 20 February 1917 ↗$1,800 paid to Daniel and Julia McDonald for Fairmount School land
Resolution · 20 February 1917 ↗$1,900 paid to Peter and Josephine Olmo for Fairmount School land
Resolution · 5 February 1917 ↗$3,500 paid to C. and A. McDonald for Fairmount School land
Resolution · 5 February 1917 ↗City accepts C. and A. McDonald's land for Fairmount School, $3,500
Resolution · 29 January 1917 ↗M. Tomasich sells Chenery Street land for the Fairmount School, $4,658
Resolution · 22 January 1917 ↗Henry Klahn sells Chenery Street land for the Fairmount School, $4,400
Resolution · 15 January 1917 ↗Joseph Feerick sells Chenery Street land for the Fairmount School, $5,225
Resolution · 15 January 1917 ↗
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