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Congdon St

31 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Congdon St, between 1909 and 1952, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1950s; often about oil tanks and boilers, the rules for this street changed, blasting permits.

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What keeps coming up

  • Oil tanks and boilers4Fuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.
  • The rules for this street changed4Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.
  • Blasting permits3Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
  • Railroads and spur tracks3Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Sewers2Sewers 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.

  1. 1950s12
    Land bought for $10 and $1 to widen Trumbull Street · 1951
  2. 1940s2
    Land and easements bought along El Camino Real for $35,725 · 1949
  3. 1930s7
    Street work ordered on Silver Avenue east of Congdon Street · 1932
  4. 1920s2
    Burnham Plumbing Company allowed to blast for the Canal Street sewer · 1920
  5. 1910s1
    Maynard Street to be graded and paved at Congdon Street · 1919
  6. 1900s7
    Street levels set on Trumbull, Ney, Marshall, Grant and Congdon streets · 1909

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