Minnesota St
63 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Minnesota St, between 1906 and 2012, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1900s; often about railroads and spur tracks, streets closed for good, parking.
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What keeps coming up
- Railroads and spur tracks14Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Streets closed for good3Streets 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.
- Liquor licences3Bars, shops and restaurants — the licence following the address as it changes hands.
- 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.
- 2010s3DIGWines gets a wine licence at 1005 Minnesota Street · 2011
- 2000s2Stop signs added on Bacon, Minnesota and Sacramento Streets · 2001
- 1990s1Deadlines for filing labour agreements with the Clerk sent to committee · 1997
- 1980s2Parking changes made on Baker, Lawton, Minnesota and Newhall Streets · 1987
- 1970s14City takes over the Minnesota Street roadway south of Twenty-second Street · 1976
- 1960s2Hermco allowed a fence in Minnesota Street south of Twenty-Fifth · 1962
- 1940s3Federal hold on Tennessee and Minnesota Streets housing land to end · 1948
- 1930s7$2,500 set aside to rebuild Minnesota Street between Eighteenth and Nineteenth · 1938
- 1920s5Santa Fe Railway allowed a spur track across Minnesota Street · 1929
- 1910s8Concrete sewers built in Kentucky Street and Mariposa Street to Indiana · 1910
- 1900s16Sidewalk widths set on Nineteenth Street between Indiana and Minnesota Streets · 1907
The most notable decisions
Federal hold on Tennessee and Minnesota Streets housing land to end
Ordinance · 28 June 1948 ↗Army allowed to occupy Minnesota and Tennessee Streets for the war
Resolution · 25 October 1943 ↗City takes over the Minnesota Street roadway south of Twenty-second Street
Ordinance · 6 July 1976 ↗Sidewalk widths set on Nineteenth Street between Indiana and Minnesota Streets
Ordinance · 7 January 1907 ↗Minnesota Street rebuilt with new levels and $12,000 city aid
Ordinance · 5 August 1974 ↗Wires to go underground on part of Minnesota Street
Ordinance · 8 July 1974 ↗Minnesota Street rebuilt with new street levels and $6,000 city aid
Ordinance · 6 May 1974 ↗$2,500 set aside to rebuild Minnesota Street between Eighteenth and Nineteenth
Ordinance · 31 January 1938 ↗Concrete sewers built in Kentucky Street and Mariposa Street to Indiana
Departmental work · 1910 ↗Stop signs added on Bacon, Minnesota and Sacramento Streets
Resolution · 21 May 2001 ↗
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