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Michigan St

69 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Michigan St, between 1910 and 2006, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about railroads and spur tracks, environmental review, streets closed for good.

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What keeps coming up

  • Railroads and spur tracks12Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Environmental review6Nothing before the 1970s, then permanent: the review law arriving and staying.
  • Streets closed for good5Streets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.
  • Parking3Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
  • War and the military3The military in the city, and what the wars did to it.
  • 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. 2000s6
    Parts of 26th, Michigan, Georgia and Louisiana Streets given up · 2003
  2. 1970s3
    City takes over Twenty-fourth Street out to Warm Water Cove · 1977
  3. 1960s1
    Hearing held on paving Twenty-Fourth, Michigan and Twenty-Fifth Streets · 1966
  4. 1950s4
    Deal with the state on streets moved for the Bayshore Freeway · 1952
  5. 1940s4
    24th Street widened from Michigan to Louisiana, Melrose Avenue too · 1942
  6. 1920s38
    More street cars urged for the new Judah Street line · 1927
  7. 1910s13
    Lena Place to be closed for Bethlehem Shipbuilding · 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