Keith St
78 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Keith St, between 1910 and 1996, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about railroads and spur tracks, sewers, land bought and sold.
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What keeps coming up
- Railroads and spur tracks7Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Sewers7Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Land bought and sold5Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.
- Blasting permits4Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
- Streets closed for good4Streets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.
- Parks and playgrounds3Playgrounds and recreation grounds.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1990s4Motorcycle parking set on Kaplan Lane and Sixteenth Street · 1996
- 1980s1Stop signs added at Fulton, Underwood and Cabrillo Streets · 1984
- 1970s12Bigger grant approved for Hunters Point neighbourhood facilities · 1971
- 1960s7Keith Street closed for good between Egbert and Donner Avenues · 1964
- 1950s2Tunnel runs 3,700 feet from Palou and Griffiths to Keith Street · 1952
- 1940s9Land at Keith and LaSalle taken for a water tank · 1943
- 1930s1Pig keeping to be banned outside a strip near Arthur Avenue · 1932
- 1920s34A claim allowed for land required for the Le Conte School · 1924
- 1910s8Curbs and asphalt ordered on Quesada Avenue between Jennings and Keith · 1918
The most notable decisions
Pig keeping to be banned outside a strip near Arthur Avenue
Ordinance · 11 April 1932 ↗A claim allowed for land required for the Le Conte School
Resolution · 15 December 1924 ↗Stella Samone's Bay View playground land bought for $3,000
Resolution · 27 June 1921 ↗Wm. H. Chapman's Bay View playground land bought for $350
Resolution · 27 June 1921 ↗$1,100 paid to Annie L. Wallace for Bay View playground land
Resolution · 20 June 1921 ↗Annie L. Wallace's Bay View land accepted for $1,100
Resolution · 20 June 1921 ↗Light industry allowed in the block at Donner and Jennings
Ordinance · 6 September 1928 ↗City land at Third Street and Armstrong Avenue becomes a playground
Resolution · 26 January 1925 ↗Bigger grant approved for Hunters Point neighbourhood facilities
Resolution · passed · 4 October 1971 ↗Shops allowed along San Jose Avenue between Sickles and Regent
Ordinance · 6 September 1928 ↗
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