Head St
37 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Head St, between 1913 and 1967, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about blasting permits, streetcars and transit, paving and grading.
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What keeps coming up
- Blasting permits2Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
- Streetcars and transit2Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- Paving and grading2Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Sewers2Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1960s1Map approved to extend Santa Barbara Avenue to Head Street · 1967
- 1950s4San Diego Avenue to be extended to Palmetto Avenue · 1955
- 1930s5Widening of Turk Street between Masonic and St. Joseph's Avenues approved · 1932
- 1920s20Catherine Roberts paid $60 for land widening Garfield Street · 1927
- 1910s7Head Street to be extended north to Holloway Avenue · 1913
The most notable decisions
Catherine Roberts paid $60 for land widening Garfield Street
Resolution · 2 January 1927 ↗Simon Linehan sells $80 of land to widen Randolph Street
Resolution · 10 December 1923 ↗Margaret Rowe and four neighbors sell land to widen Randolph Street
Resolution · 15 October 1923 ↗Map approved to extend Santa Barbara Avenue to Head Street
Resolution · passed · 27 March 1967 ↗San Diego Avenue to be extended to Palmetto Avenue
Resolution · 31 January 1955 ↗Widening of Turk Street between Masonic and St. Joseph's Avenues approved
Resolution · passed · 7 November 1932 ↗Head Street to be extended north to Holloway Avenue
Resolution · 3 November 1913 ↗Head Street to be extended northward from its present end
Resolution · 27 October 1913 ↗Buildings on Head Street and Twenty-first Avenue must be set back
Ordinance · 29 March 1926 ↗How far back buildings must sit set on Bright Street
Ordinance · 7 December 1925 ↗
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