Felton St
46 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Felton St, between 1907 and 1972, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about paving and grading, blasting permits, protests and appeals.
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What keeps coming up
- Paving and grading4Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Blasting permits3Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
- Protests and appeals3A protest recorded at a hearing, or an appeal against a decision — brought by neighbours and by applicants alike.
- Railroads and spur tracks2Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Parks and playgrounds2Playgrounds and recreation grounds.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1970s2Map approved for widening Yale Street near Felton Street · 1972
- 1960s1$48,000 paid to Emily Douglas and Marion Logan for parking land · 1964
- 1950s8City takes over Marvel Court, Felton Street and four more streets · 1958
- 1940s6University Street to be improved south of Silliman Street · 1948
- 1930s7Land swapped with Cecelia M. Burke for the proposed McLaren Park · 1935
- 1920s5Two blocks near Silliman and Felton streets bought for a playground · 1922
- 1910s15$17,000 paid to Bakewell & Brown for the City Hall plans · 1912
- 1900s2Street levels changed on Union Street between Broderick and Devisadero · 1907
The most notable decisions
Land swapped with Cecelia M. Burke for the proposed McLaren Park
Ordinance · proposed · 22 July 1935 ↗Two blocks near Silliman and Felton streets bought for a playground
Resolution · 27 February 1922 ↗Playground proposed on the old sheep corral at Silliman and Felton
Resolution · proposed · 1 December 1921 ↗$48,000 paid to Emily Douglas and Marion Logan for parking land
Resolution · 11 May 1964 ↗$17,000 paid to Bakewell & Brown for the City Hall plans
Resolution · 4 November 1912 ↗City accepts land at Silliman and Felton streets in University Mound
Resolution · 31 March 1930 ↗San Bruno Avenue to be paved between Felton and Silliman streets
Ordinance · 25 May 1914 ↗City takes over Marvel Court, Felton Street and four more streets
Ordinance · 13 January 1958 ↗City takes over new roadways on Cambridge, Felton and Vernon Streets
Ordinance · 19 October 1953 ↗City takes over Excelsior Avenue and Peru Avenue roadways
Ordinance · 28 August 1950 ↗
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