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Essex St

19 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Essex St, between 1907 and 2005, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1930s; often about blasting permits, parking, sewers.

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What keeps coming up

  • Blasting permits3Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
  • Parking3Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
  • 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. 2000s3
    New Rincon Hill housing would pay fees for parks and streets · 2005
  2. 1990s1
    Bike lanes established on Holloway Avenue between Tapia and Varela · 1995
  3. 1980s2
  4. 1960s2
    Rule adopted for westbound Harrison Street turns into Essex Street · 1963
  5. 1940s1
    Stop sign ordered at Folsom and Essex Streets · 1942
  6. 1930s6
    Brighton and Lakeview avenues to be paved, curbed and sewered · 1930
  7. 1900s4
    Peter McHugh paid $1,039.62 for sewering on Harrison Street · 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