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Franconia St

29 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Franconia St, between 1910 and 1986, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about blasting permits, paving and grading, streets closed for good.

Open Franconia St on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

  • Blasting permits2Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
  • Paving and grading2Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
  • Streets closed for good2Streets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.
  • 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.

  1. 1980s5
    Sidewalk widths to change on Franconia Street between Esmeralda and Powhattan · 1985
  2. 1970s7
    Land bought for $2,750 to straighten Franconia Street · 1975
  3. 1960s1
    Map approved to realign Franconia Street south of Mayflower Street · 1961
  4. 1950s5
    Franconia Street improved with $900 city aid and $2,000 for sewers · 1955
  5. 1940s3
    C. A. Wellman gives a sewer easement on Rutledge Street free · 1949
  6. 1930s4
    H. V. Tucker allowed to blast while grading on Powhattan Avenue · 1931
  7. 1910s4
    Wolfe Street to be sewered and paved between Franconia and Isabel · 1919

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