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Garfield St

79 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Garfield St, between 1920 and 1998, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about sewers, paving and grading, land bought and sold.

Open Garfield St on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

  • Sewers6Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
  • Paving and grading3Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
  • Land bought and sold3Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.
  • Blasting permits2Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
  • 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.

  1. 1990s1
    Stop signs established at 25th and Hampshire and Garfield and Vernon · 1998
  2. 1950s1
    Bright Street improved with about $5,300 of city aid · 1955
  3. 1940s1
    Aid lien recorded on George Lewis's Monticello Street property · 1940
  4. 1930s9
    Two parcels declared an open public street named Garfield Street · 1932
  5. 1920s67
    $27,450 for Hueter land for the Balboa Terrace Playground · 1928

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