Hill St
17 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Hill St, between 1909 and 2001, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about railroads and spur tracks, parking, paving and grading.
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What keeps coming up
- Railroads and spur tracks4Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Parking3Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- Paving and grading2Cutting 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.
- 2000s2Stop signs proposed at Castro and Hill, Amazon and Paris · 2001
- 1960s2Dolores Heights blocks set for smaller housing, second reading · 1964
- 1950s2$2,500 paid to settle Abraham Bassin's claim against the city · 1954
- 1930s4American Box and Drum wins a twenty-year lease in Colma · 1931
- 1920s3Board fixes how far back buildings must sit on several streets · 1923
- 1900s4Theodore Weiss sells land for $1,500 to open Faxon Avenue · 1909
The most notable decisions
Dolores Heights blocks set for smaller housing, second reading
Ordinance · 14 December 1964 ↗American Box and Drum wins a twenty-year lease in Colma
Resolution · 26 January 1931 ↗Theodore Weiss sells land for $1,500 to open Faxon Avenue
Resolution · 15 November 1909 ↗Board fixes how far back buildings must sit on several streets
Ordinance · 23 July 1923 ↗Buildings must sit back along Liberty Street and Hollister Avenue
Ordinance · 16 July 1923 ↗Rule adopted on Ripley, Hill, Elizabeth and Garden Streets
Resolution · passed · 22 August 1966 ↗City land in Colma offered at auction on a twenty-year lease
Resolution · 19 January 1931 ↗Street levels changed on Sanchez Street between Twenty-first and Hill
Ordinance · 13 January 1930 ↗Street levels changed on Castro and Hill streets
Ordinance · 7 June 1909 ↗Street levels to change on Castro and Hill streets
Ordinance · 1 June 1909 ↗
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