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Gennessee St

18 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Gennessee St, between 1912 and 2003, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about paving and grading, railroads and spur tracks, parking.

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What keeps coming up

  • Paving and grading3Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
  • Railroads and spur tracks2Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Parking2Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
  • Environmental review2Nothing before the 1970s, then permanent: the review law arriving and staying.

Decade by decade

Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.

  1. 2000s2
    New stop signs for four corners, including 20th and Arkansas · 2003
  2. 1940s2
    City takes over the new roadway on Melrose Avenue · 1940
  3. 1930s5
    Ethel Brincard and May Brennan deed land for Melrose Avenue · 1931
  4. 1920s3
    City to run a five-cent bus line along The Embarcadero · 1925
  5. 1910s6
    Silliman Street and Hearst Avenue to be curbed and paved · 1918

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