Hawes St
57 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Hawes St, between 1916 and 2022, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about streets closed for good, railroads and spur tracks, paving and grading.
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What keeps coming up
- Streets closed for good5Streets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.
- Railroads and spur tracks3Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Paving and grading3Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Parking3Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- Streets closed for a day2Parades, street fairs, block parties, ground-breakings, festivals.
- 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.
- 2020s1Environmental findings offered for a fire training site on Carroll Avenue · 2022
- 2000s2Turn bans at Columbus Avenue and transit lanes at Candlestick Park · 2004
- 1980s6Sewer to cross Port land at Yosemite Avenue and Hawes Street · 1985
- 1970s11City takes over Hawes Street between Ingerson and Gilman Avenues · 1976
- 1960s6Van Dyke Avenue to be improved with $100 in city aid · 1967
- 1950s8City takes over Carroll Avenue between Ingalls and Hawes Streets · 1958
- 1940s2City land near Hunters Point declared ready for sale · 1941
- 1930s9Congress asked to help finance the Golden Gate Bridge district · 1934
- 1920s5Palou Avenue to be improved between Jennings and Hawes Streets · 1926
- 1910s7$500 paid to Herman F. Gillberg for Hunters Point Boulevard land · 1917
The most notable decisions
Congress asked to help finance the Golden Gate Bridge district
Resolution · 13 February 1934 ↗Washington told the city will take Candlestick Point for a park
Resolution · 12 March 1934 ↗$500 paid to Herman F. Gillberg for Hunters Point Boulevard land
Resolution · 5 February 1917 ↗Turn bans at Columbus Avenue and transit lanes at Candlestick Park
Resolution · 22 June 2004 ↗Land on Galvez Avenue near Coleman Street to be acquired
Resolution · 16 September 1918 ↗Land at Hudson Avenue and Hawes Street to be taken
Resolution · 9 October 1916 ↗Sewer to cross Port land at Yosemite Avenue and Hawes Street
Resolution · 29 July 1985 ↗City takes over Hawes Street between Ingerson and Gilman Avenues
Ordinance · 2 February 1976 ↗City to take over Hawes Street and Nibbi Court roadways
Resolution · 27 December 1971 ↗City takes over Carroll Avenue between Ingalls and Hawes Streets
Ordinance · 13 January 1958 ↗
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