Mason St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Mason St, between 1906 and 2011, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1900s; often about oil tanks and boilers, parks and playgrounds, railroads and spur tracks.
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What keeps coming up
- Oil tanks and boilers14Fuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.
- Parks and playgrounds13Playgrounds and recreation grounds.
- Railroads and spur tracks9Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Schools7School sites bought, built and repaired.
- Taxis and garages4Taxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.
- Housing bonds4How affordable housing is paid for, in the years since the 1980s.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2010s3Appeal against the North Beach library plan heard in public · 2011
- 2000s7$28M in bonds approved for the Mason Street Apartments · 2007
- 1980s9Height limits lowered on the block by Filbert and Grant Streets · 1988
- 1970s2Supervisor Britt asks the Mayor to study empty housing units · 1979
- 1960s4Bill confirmed for improving Shephard Place east of Mason Street · 1969
- 1950s2Cable car charter amendment refused a place on the ballot · 1950
- 1940s7Planning Commission overruled on shops at Broadway and Mason Streets · 1940
- 1930s9$3,000 to clear the Harrison Street lot for the new warehouse · 1930
- 1920s25Voters to decide in November on a $750,000 Broadway tunnel · 1928
- 1910s20$26,609 for building the Twin Peaks Primary School on Corbett Avenue · 1919
- 1900s32B. Fernandez sells a Broadway lot for the Jean Parker School · 1909
The most notable decisions
$26,609 for building the Twin Peaks Primary School on Corbett Avenue
Resolution · 13 January 1919 ↗$26,609 set aside to build the Twin Peaks Primary School
Resolution · 30 December 1918 ↗Voters to decide in November on a $750,000 Broadway tunnel
Ordinance · 24 September 1928 ↗B. Fernandez sells a Broadway lot for the Jean Parker School
Resolution · 15 November 1909 ↗$8925 for a school lot on Broadway from the Jimenez estate
Resolution · 11 January 1909 ↗Children's playground created between Greenwich, Powell, Lombard and Mason streets
Ordinance · 21 September 1908 ↗G. B. Dondero paid $66,500 for North Beach playground land
Resolution · 1 June 1908 ↗Louis Lercari paid $18,500 for North Beach playground land
Resolution · 28 May 1908 ↗Ida Ginocchio paid $26,000 for North Beach playground land
Resolution · 12 May 1908 ↗Kate Heath Maher paid $11,000 for North Beach playground land
Resolution · 12 May 1908 ↗
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