Fairmount St
16 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Fairmount St, between 1910 and 2005, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about railroads and spur tracks, sewers, the rules for this street changed.
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What keeps coming up
- Railroads and spur tracks7Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Sewers6Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- The rules for this street changed2Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2000s2All-way stop proposed at Arlington and Fairmount Streets · 2005
- 1960s2Two-family housing set for Miguel Street north of Fairmount Street · 1964
- 1930s2City takes over the new roadway on Laidley Street · 1934
- 1920s1Land at Randall Street and San Jose Avenue declared needed · 1926
- 1910s9Sidewalks on Fairmount Street set at ten feet wide · 1913
The most notable decisions
Two-family housing set for Miguel Street north of Fairmount Street
Ordinance · 19 October 1964 ↗City takes over the new roadway on Laidley Street
Ordinance · 11 June 1934 ↗Sidewalks on Fairmount Street set at ten feet wide
Ordinance · 10 February 1913 ↗Paving ordered for Arthur Avenue, Academy Street and Lisbon Street
Ordinance · 30 October 1916 ↗Sewers to be built in Tonquin Street between Baker and Pierce
Ordinance · 17 February 1913 ↗Sewers ordered in Tonquin Street between Baker and Pierce streets
Ordinance · 10 February 1913 ↗Southern Pacific to let a city sewer cross its tracks
Ordinance · 20 June 1910 ↗Union Oil allowed a filling station on The Embarcadero
Resolution · 20 January 1919 ↗Frank Denatale allowed one horse behind Whittier and Mission Streets
Ordinance · 13 May 1912 ↗Two-family housing proposed on Miguel Street north of Fairmount Street
Ordinance · proposed · 13 October 1964 ↗
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