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Lyell St

26 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Lyell St, between 1912 and 1970, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about paving and grading, railroads and spur tracks, sewers.

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What keeps coming up

  • Paving and grading4Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
  • Railroads and spur tracks2Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Sewers2Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
  • Parking2Where 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.

  1. 1970s1
    Improvement authorized for Bosworth Street and O'Shaughnessy Boulevard · 1970
  2. 1950s5
    Rousseau and Lyell Streets set one way, adopted · 1954
  3. 1940s1
    Emily Openshaw's aid lien on Lyell Street put behind a mortgage · 1940
  4. 1930s3
    Map approved for extending Lyell Street to the proposed Alemany Boulevard · 1931
  5. 1920s5
    Therese Thomson sells land to extend Lyell Street for $1,000 · 1928
  6. 1910s11
    City land dedicated to widen Lyell Street · 1918

The most notable decisions

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