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Divisadero St

97 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Divisadero St, between 1906 and 2003, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about taxis and garages, railroads and spur tracks, wires put underground.

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What keeps coming up

  • Taxis and garages9Taxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.
  • Railroads and spur tracks6Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Wires put underground6Districts where overhead wires had to come down.
  • Keeping horses and cows5Until about 1930 the Board voted on whether you could keep animals at your address.
  • Schools5School sites bought, built and repaired.
  • Laundries4Laundries needed the Board's permission, and their neighbours sometimes objected.

Decade by decade

Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.

  1. 2000s1
    Permit parking proposed on 20th Street between Church and Sanchez · 2003
  2. 1990s1
    Parking changes on Jessie, Moraga and Duboce Streets proposed · 1998
  3. 1980s1
    Taxi zones added on California and Mason Streets, others removed · 1988
  4. 1970s2
    Traffic controls set at Baker, Divisadero and Thirtieth Avenue corners · 1970
  5. 1960s7
    Divisadero Street between Page and Haight rezoned for shops · 1960
  6. 1950s5
    Left turns banned at times on parts of Divisadero Street · 1959
  7. 1940s6
    Market Street Railway asks to run buses on Castro and Fillmore · 1940
  8. 1930s3
    Tunnel proposed under Divisadero Street costing $5.4M · 1938
  9. 1920s41
    J. B. De Maria's offer of school land accepted for $76,500 · 1926
  10. 1910s22
    Plinn & Treacy paved along Geary Street from Buchanan to Divisadero · 1912
  11. 1900s8
    City to sell sewer and street bonds on March 25 · 1907

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