Mission
28 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Mission, between 1906 and 1964, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about clinics and hospitals, sewers, war and the military.
What keeps coming up
- Clinics and hospitals9Clinics, health centres and hospitals.
- Sewers8Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- War and the military8The military in the city, and what the wars did to it.
- Schools4School sites bought, built and repaired.
- Parks and playgrounds4Playgrounds and recreation grounds.
- Railroads and spur tracks2Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1960s1Zoological Gardens and fifteen other projects cut from the recreation bond · 1964
- 1950s2$36,879.33 water assessment for Mission Road put off a week · 1956
- 1920s10C. L. Wold to build Pacific Heights School on Jackson Street · 1922
- 1910s12Tax rates fixed for the school, library, park and bond funds · 1912
- 1900s3City tax set at $1.50 per hundred dollars of property · 1908
The most notable decisions
City tax set at $1.50 per hundred dollars of property
Ordinance · 15 June 1908 ↗Tax rates fixed for the school, library, park and bond funds
Ordinance · 17 June 1912 ↗Property tax rate set at $2.20 per hundred dollars
Ordinance · 5 June 1913 ↗C. L. Wold to build Pacific Heights School on Jackson Street
Resolution · 22 May 1922 ↗Tax rate split among the school, library and park funds
Ordinance · 29 June 1914 ↗$120,000 for playgrounds passed, including a new Mission site
Motion · 26 May 1916 ↗Land next to the Fairmount School to be taken by condemnation
Resolution · 9 July 1928 ↗Zoological Gardens and fifteen other projects cut from the recreation bond
Resolution · 20 July 1964 ↗Tax of one dollar thirty-two cents per hundred dollars proposed
Ordinance · proposed · 22 June 1906 ↗Amendment offered to send the route along Church Street instead
Motion · 8 February 1915 ↗
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