Liberty St
27 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Liberty St, between 1910 and 1923, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about streetcars and transit, blasting permits, paving and grading.
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What keeps coming up
- Streetcars and transit4Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- Blasting permits2Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
- Paving and grading2Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Street lights2Lighting a street, block by block.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
The most notable decisions
City sets aside $4,000 to study Sunset District railway extensions
Resolution · 23 July 1923 ↗$3,300 more set aside for building the Marina Boulevard
Resolution · 4 March 1918 ↗Board fixes how far back buildings must sit on several streets
Ordinance · 23 July 1923 ↗City pays Ruth Buck $2,150 for land on Liberty Street
Resolution · 4 March 1918 ↗City accepts Ruth Buck's offer to sell Liberty Street land
Resolution · 25 February 1918 ↗City to buy Helen Artieda's land at Sanchez Street for $1,500
Resolution · 14 January 1918 ↗City to condemn three parcels of land on Liberty Street
Resolution · 23 July 1917 ↗Buildings must sit back along Liberty Street and Hollister Avenue
Ordinance · 16 July 1923 ↗$704 set aside for work on Liberty Street
Resolution · 1 May 1922 ↗Church and Liberty Streets crossing to be repaved and recurbed
Ordinance · 10 April 1916 ↗
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