Great Hwy
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Great Hwy, between 1908 and 2025, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about pg&e and the utilities, sewers, streetcars and transit.
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What keeps coming up
- PG&E and the utilities21The gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.
- Sewers18Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Streetcars and transit17Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- Clinics and hospitals13Clinics, health centres and hospitals.
- Fire stations10Engine houses and fire stations.
- Paving and grading9Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2020s4$1.0M state grant to plan the Great Highway Promenade · 2025
- 2010s3$600,500 for airport bomb-sniffing dogs sent to committee · 2011
- 2000s3Ocean Beach erosion study costed at $2.8M with the Army Corps · 2004
- 1990s1$200,000 to stop slope erosion along the Great Highway · 1998
- 1980s10$7M set aside for the Great Highway seawall, held in reserve · 1986
- 1950s1Board told a branch library is planned for the Sunset center · 1953
- 1940s4$585,900 agreed with the state for major street work this year · 1940
- 1930s6Hetch Hetchy suppliers paid, including $5,218.30 to Hercules Powder · 1930
- 1920s70Final $27,000 paid to R. C. Storrie for Twin Peaks Tunnel · 1920
- 1910s17City budget list of $1.5M, from street lighting to schools · 1918
- 1900s1Parkside Realty's land accepted and named Sloat Boulevard · 1908
The most notable decisions
Final $27,000 paid to R. C. Storrie for Twin Peaks Tunnel
Resolution · 20 September 1920 ↗Utah Construction Co. paid $39,497.62 for the Hetch Hetchy dam
Resolution · 9 August 1920 ↗Utah Construction Co. paid $45,000 for work on Hetch Hetchy Dam
Resolution · 12 July 1920 ↗City budget list of $1.5M, from street lighting to schools
Motion · 3 June 1918 ↗O. Monson paid $95,715 for building Portola Junior High School
Resolution · 23 April 1928 ↗C. L. Wold to build Pacific Heights School on Jackson Street
Resolution · 22 May 1922 ↗Anderson & Ringrose paid $22,342.50 for building the Grant School
Resolution · 6 December 1920 ↗City pays Associated Charities $12,435.79 for widows' pensions
Resolution · 18 October 1920 ↗Hetch Hetchy suppliers paid, including $5,218.30 to Hercules Powder
Resolution · 16 June 1930 ↗$1.0M state grant to plan the Great Highway Promenade
Resolution · 4 March 2025 ↗
Where this comes from
The street holds more than 120 decisions; this page carries the 120 most notable. 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