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Hampshire St

120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Hampshire St, between 1907 and 2001, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about streetcars and transit, sewers, railroads and spur tracks.

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What keeps coming up

  • Streetcars and transit12Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
  • Sewers12Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
  • Railroads and spur tracks10Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Parking9Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
  • Parks and playgrounds9Playgrounds and recreation grounds.
  • Paving and grading8Cutting 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.

  1. 2000s6
    Speed humps for Hampshire Street adopted · 2000
  2. 1990s8
    Stop signs established at 25th and Hampshire and Garfield and Vernon · 1998
  3. 1980s1
    24th and Harrison Streets to close for a street festival · 1981
  4. 1970s3
    Speed limit set at 25 miles an hour on Army Street · 1974
  5. 1960s1
    Title Insurance and Trust allowed a parking lot on Hampshire Street · 1967
  6. 1950s5
    Alameda-York Parking Plaza set aside between York and Hampshire Streets · 1958
  7. 1930s14
    Army Street widened across playground land west of Potrero Avenue · 1933
  8. 1920s19
    University of California Regents sell Potrero Avenue land for a hospital · 1924
  9. 1910s48
    George Ryan paid $12,000 for playground land at Army Street · 1919
  10. 1900s15
    $6,225 paid to Lange & Bergstrom for the Winfield Scott School · 1908

The most notable decisions

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