Farallones St
26 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Farallones St, between 1909 and 1987, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about railroads and spur tracks, schools, clinics and hospitals.
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What keeps coming up
- Railroads and spur tracks6Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Schools4School sites bought, built and repaired.
- Clinics and hospitals2Clinics, health centres and hospitals.
- War and the military2The military in the city, and what the wars did to it.
- Land bought and sold2Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1980s1Surplus car for Project Open Hand sent to the finance committee · 1987
- 1930s1Robert Hale freed of an old water pipe easement for $5 · 1938
- 1920s16Land bought to widen Randolph Street for the Municipal Railway · 1924
- 1910s6New sewers to be laid under Orizaba Street · 1917
- 1900s2William S. Bentham's land bought for the Sheridan Primary School · 1909
The most notable decisions
William S. Bentham's land bought for the Sheridan Primary School
Resolution · 10 May 1909 ↗Henry Bentham sells land for the Sheridan Primary School for $3,450
Resolution · 26 April 1909 ↗Land bought to widen Randolph Street for the Municipal Railway
Resolution · 4 August 1924 ↗City to take land at Farallones Street and Orizaba Avenue
Resolution · 7 April 1924 ↗Buildings on Twenty-ninth Avenue and Farallones Street must sit back
Ordinance · 26 September 1927 ↗Buildings on Shields and Farallones streets may be pushed back
Resolution · 12 April 1926 ↗Buildings on Shields Street and Nineteenth Avenue to sit further back
Ordinance · 12 April 1926 ↗Farallones Street to be curbed and paved between Capitol and Orizaba
Ordinance · 15 June 1925 ↗Farallones Street to get a sewer and pavement near Plymouth Avenue
Ordinance · 30 April 1923 ↗New sewers to be laid under Orizaba Street
Ordinance · 16 July 1917 ↗
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