Foerster St
48 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Foerster St, between 1910 and 1963, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about paving and grading, sewers, schools.
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What keeps coming up
- Paving and grading16Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Sewers7Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Schools4School sites bought, built and repaired.
- Blasting permits2Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
- Streetcars and transit2Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- 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.
- 1960s3Alfred Nordloff's land bought for $37,500 to widen Geneva Avenue · 1963
- 1950s2Foerster Street improved with about $6,000 of city aid · 1955
- 1940s2Meyer Brothers pays $4,130.97 for the Foerster Street slide · 1943
- 1920s25Land bought at Flood Avenue and Foerster Street for a school · 1926
- 1910s16$2,469.32 paid Federal Construction for the Foerster Street storm sewer · 1915
The most notable decisions
Land bought at Flood Avenue and Foerster Street for a school
Resolution · 8 March 1926 ↗Jamestown National Bank paid for school land at Flood Avenue
Resolution · 23 February 1926 ↗Maurice Cattran paid $5,125 for school land at Hearst and Foerster
Resolution · 20 July 1925 ↗Alfred Nordloff's land bought for $37,500 to widen Geneva Avenue
Ordinance · 10 June 1963 ↗Jamestown National Bank sells land at Flood Avenue for $4,399
Resolution · 15 February 1926 ↗Maurice Cattran paid $5,125 for the Foerster Street land
Resolution · 3 August 1925 ↗Maurice Cattran to be paid $5,125 for the Foerster Street land
Resolution · 27 July 1925 ↗Sidewalk widths fixed on Foerster Street below Mangels Avenue
Ordinance · 26 September 1927 ↗Buildings on Foerster Street may be set back
Resolution · 1 June 1925 ↗City sets how far back buildings must sit on Foerster Street
Ordinance · 1 June 1925 ↗
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