Leavenworth St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Leavenworth St, between 1906 and 2004, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about oil tanks and boilers, fire stations, railroads and spur tracks.
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What keeps coming up
- Oil tanks and boilers18Fuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.
- Fire stations14Engine houses and fire stations.
- Railroads and spur tracks10Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Paving and grading6Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Sewers6Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Parking6Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2000s2Bus and taxi lanes proposed on O'Farrell and Geary Streets · 2004
- 1990s2Renewal of the New Conservatory Theatre Center lease sent to committee · 1998
- 1980s1Sewer to be restored on Bush Street between Hyde and Leavenworth · 1988
- 1970s1Traffic signal urged at Bay and Leavenworth Streets · 1978
- 1960s5Parking meters extended to parts of Polk and Leavenworth Streets · 1968
- 1950s2Joseph and Henrietta Williams allowed driveways on Lombard Street · 1951
- 1940s3Sophie Lerche paid $16,500 and the Guaragnas $20,000 for tunnel land · 1949
- 1930s17$2.4M listed for structural improvements including the Bernal Cut · 1931
- 1920s26$145,000 paid to Marguerite E. Marchand for Civic Center land · 1924
- 1910s37Tax rate set, with half a cent for sanitary work · 1910
- 1900s24More money for the engine house at Green and Leavenworth streets · 1908
The most notable decisions
Tax rate set, with half a cent for sanitary work
Ordinance · 20 June 1910 ↗Storrie & Co. paid $2,823.87 for Twin Peaks Tunnel work
Resolution · 24 September 1917 ↗$145,000 paid to Marguerite E. Marchand for Civic Center land
Resolution · 11 August 1924 ↗Marguerite E. Marchand paid $80,000 for Civic Center land
Resolution · 23 June 1924 ↗E. W. Elliott to be paid for Engine House No. 41
Resolution · 10 February 1910 ↗More money for the engine house at Green and Leavenworth streets
Resolution · 17 February 1908 ↗$2.4M listed for structural improvements including the Bernal Cut
Ordinance · 28 December 1931 ↗Josephine Daniels paid $6,150 for the Leavenworth Street firehouse lot
Resolution · 12 October 1908 ↗Francisco Street between Hyde and Leavenworth set for single-family homes
Ordinance · 14 July 1924 ↗Oil storage district extended to a block on Jefferson Street
Ordinance · 29 January 1923 ↗
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