Mendell St
70 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Mendell St, between 1915 and 2006, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about railroads and spur tracks, parking, sewers.
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What keeps coming up
- Railroads and spur tracks11Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Parking8Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- Sewers6Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Streets closed for a day3Parades, street fairs, block parties, ground-breakings, festivals.
- Paving and grading2Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2000s9Sidewalk and parking lane on Fillmore Street given over on Saturdays · 2006
- 1990s1Mendell Street and two others to close for Earth Day · 1991
- 1970s7$191,700 to narrow LaSalle Avenue sidewalks finally passed · 1972
- 1960s3Half of Hudson Avenue set aside weekdays as a preschool playground · 1969
- 1950s10Newhall and Mendell Streets made one-way at all times · 1953
- 1940s11Part of Wallace Avenue east of Mendell Street closed for good · 1940
- 1930s16Sewer easement accepted from Southern Pacific at Mendell and Shoup · 1938
- 1920s7Street levels changed on Alameda, Treat and Alabama streets · 1928
- 1910s6Ivy Street sidewalks set at seven feet and three feet · 1917
The most notable decisions
Half of Hudson Avenue set aside weekdays as a preschool playground
Resolution · 13 January 1969 ↗Palou Avenue and Mendell Street picked for a public parking lot
Resolution · 1 April 1968 ↗Sewer easement accepted from Southern Pacific at Mendell and Shoup
Resolution · 25 July 1938 ↗Newhall and Mendell Streets made one-way at all times
Resolution · 13 July 1953 ↗Sidewalk and parking lane on Fillmore Street given over on Saturdays
Resolution · 18 April 2006 ↗$191,700 to narrow LaSalle Avenue sidewalks finally passed
Ordinance · passed · 6 March 1972 ↗City takes over the new roadway on Mendell Street
Ordinance · 16 March 1959 ↗City takes over Wabash Terrace, Racine Lane and Beeman Lane
Ordinance · 5 December 1938 ↗Ivy Street sidewalks set at seven feet and three feet
Ordinance · 9 July 1917 ↗An adoption vote over Hoyt, Sawyer, Arleta and Teddy streets
Resolution · 4 April 1966 ↗
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