Judah St
109 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Judah St, between 1910 and 2017, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about streetcars and transit, schools, oil tanks and boilers.
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What keeps coming up
- Streetcars and transit10Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- Schools7School sites bought, built and repaired.
- Oil tanks and boilers6Fuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.
- Paving and grading6Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Parking6Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- Railroads and spur tracks5Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2010s1Amendment to cap cannabis shops in the Sunset fails · 2017
- 1990s3Tow-away zone on Fella Place, permit parking on 8th Avenue · 1999
- 1980s2Stop signs added on Judah Street and Mission at Steuart · 1984
- 1970s2Randolph Street made one-way southbound between 19th Avenue and Chester · 1979
- 1960s2Rezoning covers four lots at Judah Street and Tenth Avenue · 1962
- 1950s1Judah Street widening by narrowing sidewalks sent back to committee · 1954
- 1940s2Board refuses to overturn the 47th Avenue rezoning denial · 1940
- 1930s616th Avenue buildings between Quintara and Rivera must sit further back · 1939
- 1920s75Streetcar line to run from Market Street to the Great Highway · 1923
- 1910s15$4,500 to move the Southern Police Station across Clara Street · 1910
The most notable decisions
Streetcar line to run from Market Street to the Great Highway
Ordinance · 8 January 1923 ↗Streetcar line approved through a tunnel to the Great Highway
Ordinance · passed · 14 February 1922 ↗Streetcar line to run through a tunnel to the Great Highway
Ordinance · 6 February 1922 ↗Bettie Mehlwitz paid for school land on Forty-third Avenue
Resolution · 6 July 1926 ↗School land bought from John Kingston on Forty-second Avenue
Resolution · 29 March 1926 ↗Nattie E. Perlet paid for school land on Forty-third Avenue
Resolution · 15 June 1925 ↗Light industry allowed on the block between De Haro and Carolina
Ordinance · 22 December 1924 ↗More street cars urged for the new Judah Street line
Ordinance · 20 June 1927 ↗Board urged to build the Judah Street line to Ocean Beach
Resolution · 24 September 1923 ↗Municipal Railway extension proposed from the Great Highway to Cole Street
Ordinance · proposed · 13 March 1922 ↗
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