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Mateo St

14 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Mateo St, between 1909 and 1947, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about railroads and spur tracks, paving and grading, blasting permits.

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What keeps coming up

  • Railroads and spur tracks3Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Paving and grading3Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
  • Blasting permits2Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1940s1
    Timber wall along Bernal Avenue agreed with Southern Pacific · 1947
  2. 1930s2
    Parts of Fairmount, Charles, Arlington, Miguel and Mateo streets closed · 1931
  3. 1920s4
    Sidney and Annie Smith paid $4,000 for Bernal Cut land · 1927
  4. 1910s4
    New stone sidewalks ordered on Arlington Street · 1918
  5. 1900s3
    Street levels changed on Mateo and Bemis streets · 1909

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