Kirkham St
64 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Kirkham St, between 1910 and 2011, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about sewers, environmental review, paving and grading.
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What keeps coming up
- Sewers5Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Environmental review4Nothing before the 1970s, then permanent: the review law arriving and staying.
- Paving and grading3Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Parking3Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- The rules for this street changed3Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.
- Blasting permits2Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2010s3Part of La Playa Street renamed Great Highway · 2011
- 2000s13Extra building checks made law on the northwest Mount Sutro slope · 2007
- 1980s1Stop signs set at Dartmouth, Silliman and Kirkham Streets · 1985
- 1960s3Six parcels bought for up to $127,000 on Fitzgerald and Randolph · 1969
- 1950s4City takes over the new roadway on Kirkham Street · 1952
- 1940s1City lien put behind Grace Miskel's mortgage on Eleventh Avenue · 1940
- 1930s5Street levels to change on Nineteenth Avenue between Irving and Kirkham · 1939
- 1920s19City to take land on Thirtieth Avenue south of Kirkham · 1928
- 1910s15$4,500 to move the Southern Police Station across Clara Street · 1910
The most notable decisions
Extra building checks made law on the northwest Mount Sutro slope
Ordinance · 30 January 2007 ↗Zoning to change between Fifth and Nineteenth Avenues at Kirkham Street
Ordinance · 30 October 2000 ↗$4,500 to move the Southern Police Station across Clara Street
Resolution · 13 June 1910 ↗New Inner Sunset shopping district proposed between Fifth and Nineteenth Avenues
Ordinance · proposed · 30 October 2000 ↗Six parcels bought for up to $127,000 on Fitzgerald and Randolph
Resolution · 14 October 1969 ↗Block bounded by Fourth, Fifth, Parnassus and Kirkham adopted
Resolution · passed · 13 October 1964 ↗City to take land on Thirtieth Avenue south of Kirkham
Resolution · 12 March 1928 ↗Land at Funston Avenue and Kirkham Street to be acquired
Resolution · 7 March 1927 ↗City takes over the new roadway on Kirkham Street
Ordinance · 4 February 1952 ↗Street levels to change on Nineteenth Avenue between Irving and Kirkham
Resolution · 15 May 1939 ↗
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