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Hearst Ave

25 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Hearst Ave, between 1912 and 1925, 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, sewers.

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What keeps coming up

  • Paving and grading8Cutting 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.
  • 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.

  1. 1920s10
    Fireworks and firecrackers to be banned across San Francisco · 1921
  2. 1910s15
    Hearst Avenue to be paved between Edna and Detroit streets · 1919

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