Clara St
35 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Clara St, between 1908 and 1994, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about police stations, pg&e and the utilities, laundries.
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What keeps coming up
- Police stations8Police stations and the sites bought for them.
- PG&E and the utilities4The gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.
- Laundries3Laundries needed the Board's permission, and their neighbours sometimes objected.
- Schools3School sites bought, built and repaired.
- Streets closed for good2Streets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.
- Parking2Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1990s1Measure adopted for Clara Street between Fourth and Sixth Streets · 1994
- 1980s3Angle parking on Palou Avenue and no parking on Clara Street · 1988
- 1970s4Angle parking adopted on Vermont Street, time limits on Clara Street · 1978
- 1960s1Salvation Army leases the old Southern Police Station for a dollar · 1969
- 1940s1
- 1930s5Water Department land in San Mateo County to be sold · 1936
- 1920s9Clara Street land to be taken for a school · 1924
- 1910s9$2,350 set aside to finish the Southern Police Station · 1910
- 1900s2Nick Marks allowed a steam laundry boiler at 61 Clara Street · 1908
The most notable decisions
Clara Street land to be taken for a school
Resolution · 21 April 1924 ↗Southern Police Station ordered built at Fourth and Clara streets
Ordinance · 3 November 1924 ↗Southern Police Station to be built at Fourth and Clara streets
Ordinance · 27 October 1924 ↗$2,350 set aside to finish the Southern Police Station
Resolution · 19 September 1910 ↗$5,500 set aside for plans for the Southern Police Station
Resolution · 19 May 1924 ↗$5,500 for plans for a police station at Fourth and Clara
Resolution · 5 May 1924 ↗Kittle Construction paid $728 for extra work at Mission Grammar School
Resolution · 6 June 1910 ↗Angle parking on Palou Avenue and no parking on Clara Street
Resolution · 25 July 1988 ↗$52,000 voted for traffic signals at Fourth and Clara Streets
Ordinance · 13 November 1984 ↗Angle parking adopted on Vermont Street, time limits on Clara Street
Resolution · passed · 15 May 1978 ↗
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