Division St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Division St, between 1907 and 2015, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about sewers, railroads and spur tracks, fire stations.
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What keeps coming up
- Sewers44Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Railroads and spur tracks23Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Fire stations20Engine houses and fire stations.
- Clinics and hospitals15Clinics, health centres and hospitals.
- Streetcars and transit14Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- Parking6Where 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.
- 2010s1
- 2000s3New off-street parking limits proposed for South of Market · 2007
- 1990s1$66,000 for Sheriff's Department contract work sent to committee · 1991
- 1980s12Interim zoning imposed across the central South of Market area · 1986
- 1960s1Supervisors argue how long freeway billboards may stay up · 1965
- 1940s9Bond required for the storekeeper at the Hassler Health Home · 1945
- 1920s11O. Monson awarded $51,370 to build Engine House No. 29 · 1924
- 1910s53$26,125 paid to Contra Costa Construction for the Church Street railway · 1916
- 1900s29Henning & Burke paid $9,894 for Truck House No. 7 · 1909
The most notable decisions
$26,125 paid to Contra Costa Construction for the Church Street railway
Resolution · 24 July 1916 ↗The Lindgren Co. paid $10,500 for the Civic Center library
Resolution · 20 December 1915 ↗Crocker Estate and others' land accepted for a Bay View park
Ordinance · 19 October 1915 ↗John and Mary Franke to be paid $3,500 for school land
Resolution · 18 July 1910 ↗Interim zoning imposed across the central South of Market area
Resolution · 24 November 1986 ↗O. Monson awarded $51,370 to build Engine House No. 29
Resolution · 12 May 1924 ↗Firehouse for Engine 29 to be built on Division Street
Ordinance · 7 April 1924 ↗Henning & Burke paid $9,894 for Truck House No. 7
Resolution · 2 August 1909 ↗Henning & Burke paid $9,894 for building Truck House No. 7
Resolution · 26 July 1909 ↗$1,050 paid to the Whitcomb Estate for hospital rent
Resolution · 24 July 1916 ↗
Where this comes from
The street holds more than 120 decisions; this page carries the 120 most notable. 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