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Federal St

31 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Federal St, between 1907 and 1992, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about railroads and spur tracks, paving and grading, sewers.

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What keeps coming up

  • Railroads and spur tracks9Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Paving and grading4Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
  • 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. 1990s1
    One-way Minna Street and tow-away zones on Fremont Street proposed · 1992
  2. 1930s9
    Federal Street sidewalks narrowed, one stretch to have none at all · 1935
  3. 1920s6
    Farnsworth & Ruggles allowed a spur track on First Street · 1926
  4. 1910s14
    Federal Street sidewalks set at seven feet near First Street · 1918
  5. 1900s1
    M. J. Hawley given a spur track off Brannan Street · 1907

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