Kansas St
112 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Kansas St, between 1907 and 1989, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about railroads and spur tracks, paving and grading, sewers.
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What keeps coming up
- Railroads and spur tracks21Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Paving and grading19Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Sewers12Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Blasting permits8Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
- PG&E and the utilities4The gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.
- War and the military3The military in the city, and what the wars did to it.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1980s4Public Works urged to drop the tow-away zone on Army Street · 1984
- 1970s1Kansas Street to close for a California Association for A.C.T. fundraiser · 1979
- 1960s2Angle parking allowed on Kansas Street between Army and Marin Streets · 1969
- 1950s1Public Works yard to be rebuilt at Army and Kansas Streets · 1958
- 1940s9Bids taken to lease city land on Kansas Street · 1943
- 1930s13Persis B. Gray paid $3,610 for land for Telegraph Hill Park · 1933
- 1920s21City to take over the Army Street roadway near De Haro · 1920
- 1910s37City sets aside $10,000 for the Spring Valley Water takeover · 1913
- 1900s24Henning & Burke paid $3,677.85 for the temporary Lafayette School · 1909
The most notable decisions
Henning & Burke paid $3,677.85 for the temporary Lafayette School
Resolution · 11 March 1909 ↗Persis B. Gray paid $3,610 for land for Telegraph Hill Park
Resolution · 12 June 1933 ↗City sets aside $10,000 for the Spring Valley Water takeover
Resolution · 11 August 1913 ↗New safety rules proposed for street railroads across the city
Ordinance · proposed · 21 September 1908 ↗Public Works yard to be rebuilt at Army and Kansas Streets
Resolution · 14 July 1958 ↗Railroad to grant the city parcels near Third and Army streets
Resolution · 13 November 1939 ↗Hawley Forge leases city land on Kansas Street for twenty years
Ordinance · 8 February 1937 ↗Incinerator property on Kansas Street to be leased for twenty years
Ordinance · 26 June 1933 ↗Army Street widened to seventy-five feet near San Bruno Avenue
Resolution · 9 December 1918 ↗Army Street to be paved from San Bruno Avenue to Kansas Street
Ordinance · 21 July 1914 ↗
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