Detroit St
41 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Detroit St, between 1912 and 2025, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about paving and grading, land and buildings split up.
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What keeps coming up
- Paving and grading6Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- 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.
- 2020s4Fee waiver proposed for the Detroit Street Steps archway · 2025
- 2000s1Stop signs proposed for Magellan Avenue and Hermann Street · 2007
- 1980s2City takes over the new roadway on Detroit Street · 1982
- 1960s3City takes over Malta Drive, Valletta Court and Mercato Court · 1965
- 1950s2City takes over new roadways on Delta, Detroit and Prague Streets · 1958
- 1940s2California Pacific Title gives land for Thirty-fourth Street east of Detroit · 1941
- 1920s8Buildings on Tenth Avenue and Sears Street may be set back · 1925
- 1910s19Assessment district drawn around Hearst Avenue between Edna and Detroit streets · 1919
The most notable decisions
California Pacific Title gives land for Thirty-fourth Street east of Detroit
Resolution · 4 August 1941 ↗City takes over the new roadway on Detroit Street
Ordinance · 2 August 1982 ↗City to take over the new roadway on Detroit Street
Ordinance · 26 July 1982 ↗City takes over Malta Drive, Valletta Court and Mercato Court
Resolution · 8 March 1965 ↗City takes over new roadways on Delta, Detroit and Prague Streets
Ordinance · 15 September 1958 ↗Buildings on Tenth Avenue and Sears Street may be set back
Resolution · 8 June 1925 ↗City sets how far back buildings must sit on Tenth Avenue
Ordinance · 8 June 1925 ↗James Torrance's land accepted as public street on Detroit Street
Resolution · 23 April 1923 ↗Sidewalk widths changed on Detroit Street between Circular and Judson
Ordinance · 24 February 1920 ↗Sidewalk widths to be changed on Detroit Street
Ordinance · 9 February 1920 ↗
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