Douglass St
91 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Douglass St, between 1907 and 2008, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about paving and grading, sewers, parks and playgrounds.
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What keeps coming up
- Paving and grading11Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Sewers10Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Parks and playgrounds8Playgrounds and recreation grounds.
- Blasting permits7Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
- Schools5School sites bought, built and repaired.
- Parking4Where 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.
- 2000s6New stop signs at Douglass, Cabrillo and Cesar Chavez Streets · 2001
- 1990s5Diagonal parking set on Harrison Street, motorcycle spaces on Phelan Avenue · 1993
- 1980s1A lessee to be allowed to evict a sublessee · 1984
- 1970s2Vacant lot of 6,220 square feet taken on Seward Street · 1971
- 1950s2Redevelopment area between Portola Drive and Laidley Street moves ahead · 1950
- 1940s5Lillian Giovannetti Dunne given $6,150 for the Clipper Street extension · 1946
- 1930s5Leppla paid $250 for land for the Douglass Street stairway · 1932
- 1920s38More buildings ordered for Noe Valley Junior High at Elizabeth and Douglass · 1926
- 1910s14City to take land around Twin Peaks for public use · 1912
- 1900s13Ellen Dore and family sell land for Corbett Avenue for $5,000 · 1909
The most notable decisions
More buildings ordered for Noe Valley Junior High at Elizabeth and Douglass
Ordinance · 26 July 1926 ↗Douglass Street lot to be taken for a school
Resolution · 16 June 1924 ↗City to take land around Twin Peaks for public use
Resolution · 5 August 1912 ↗Roofing rules redrawn for the area between Lyon and Army streets
Ordinance · 5 July 1921 ↗Redevelopment area between Portola Drive and Laidley Street moves ahead
Ordinance · 10 July 1950 ↗Area bounded by Clipper Street and Portola Drive finally passed
Ordinance · passed · 24 July 1950 ↗Lillian Giovannetti Dunne given $6,150 for the Clipper Street extension
Resolution · 12 August 1946 ↗Part of Douglass Playground handed over for the Clipper Street extension
Resolution · 27 May 1946 ↗Leppla paid $250 for land for the Douglass Street stairway
Resolution · 31 October 1932 ↗Francesco Torrano gives land for the Douglass Street stairway
Resolution · 25 July 1932 ↗
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