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Lake St

120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Lake St, between 1906 and 2008, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1990s; often about war and the military, sewers, pg&e and the utilities.

Open Lake St on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

  • War and the military47The military in the city, and what the wars did to it.
  • Sewers11Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
  • PG&E and the utilities6The gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.
  • Oil tanks and boilers5Fuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.
  • Parking5Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
  • Clinics and hospitals4Clinics, health centres and hospitals.

Decade by decade

Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.

  1. 2000s16
    Stop signs set at Walnut and Pacific and 30th and Lake · 2005
  2. 1990s32
    Tour bus ban on 15th Avenue extended another year · 1999
  3. 1980s4
    Part of Twenty-fourth Avenue closed for good north of Lake Street · 1980
  4. 1970s2
    Rezoning of blocks near Lake Street put off · 1971
  5. 1940s13
    Map approved for the 15th Avenue extension north of Lake Street · 1941
  6. 1930s4
    Easement needed for a sewer tunnel under the Richmond district · 1936
  7. 1920s10
    John Brickell Company's land accepted to extend Thirtieth Avenue · 1921
  8. 1910s21
    Land added to Mountain Lake Park and Fourteenth Avenue extended · 1914
  9. 1900s18
    City goes to court for Mission High School and park land · 1909

The most notable decisions

Where this comes from

The street holds more than 120 decisions; this page carries the 120 most notable. 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