Mission St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Mission St, between 1906 and 2014, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1930s; often about paving and grading, sewers, railroads and spur tracks.
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What keeps coming up
- Paving and grading17Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Sewers14Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Railroads and spur tracks9Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Schools7School sites bought, built and repaired.
- Clinics and hospitals7Clinics, health centres and hospitals.
- Blasting permits5Permission 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.
- 2010s2$8.1M for a Van Ness Avenue office project passed · 2014
- 2000s2Sidewalk width change on Mission Street sent to committee · 2008
- 1990s3$984,850 sought to landscape the Mid-Embarcadero music concourse · 1999
- 1970s1Federal money sought to improve lighting on Valencia Street · 1975
- 1960s2State to repay up to $26,000 for repaving Alemany Boulevard · 1965
- 1950s4George Willard Somers sells Mission Street land for $301,425 · 1957
- 1940s4Up to $2,400 to take a corner at Army and Mission · 1949
- 1930s33Frank J. Reilly paid $51,302.65 for the de Young Museum addition · 1930
- 1920s16Bernadette Botts paid $12,100 for the Van Ness Avenue extension · 1929
- 1910s28Carnahan & Mulford paid $6,150 for the Glenn Park School · 1913
- 1900s25Peabody School lot set aside for a free market · 1907
The most notable decisions
Frank J. Reilly paid $51,302.65 for the de Young Museum addition
Resolution · 25 August 1930 ↗Carnahan & Mulford paid $6,150 for the Glenn Park School
Resolution · 14 October 1913 ↗Voters to decide November 2 on $5M in sewer bonds
Ordinance · 2 November 1937 ↗Payment approved for land needed for school purposes
Resolution · passed · 13 July 1931 ↗Hospital land bought from Claud Devencenzi on Onondaga Avenue for $6,500
Resolution · 25 May 1931 ↗Peabody School lot set aside for a free market
Ordinance · 13 January 1907 ↗$5M bond proposed to rebuild sewers across the city
Resolution · proposed · 9 August 1937 ↗$1,035.53 to Associated Charities for influenza relief at the Relief Home
Resolution · 14 July 1919 ↗O'Callaghan land bought for $74,419 to extend Van Ness Avenue
Resolution · 31 August 1931 ↗$25,350 to Albertine Orella for land to extend Van Ness Avenue
Resolution · 13 July 1931 ↗
Where this comes from
The street holds more than 120 decisions; this page carries the 120 most notable. 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