Mississippi St
63 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Mississippi St, between 1908 and 1998, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1930s; often about railroads and spur tracks, paving and grading, sewers.
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What keeps coming up
- Railroads and spur tracks8Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Paving and grading2Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Sewers2Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Wires put underground2Districts where overhead wires had to come down.
- Parking2Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- PG&E and the utilities2The gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1990s2Bike lanes adopted on 16th Street, turn rules changed on Broadway · 1995
- 1960s4Land bought for the Marina off-street parking site · 1967
- 1950s1Blocks of Missouri, Texas and Twenty-third Streets proposed · 1952
- 1940s9City land at Texas and Mississippi Streets opened to light industry · 1946
- 1930s21Soule Steel land taken to realign part of Mississippi Street · 1935
- 1920s17Mayor to sign a Southern Pacific deal for Army Street land · 1920
- 1910s4Army Street to be regraded, with nearby owners paying damages · 1914
- 1900s5City takes over the new roadway on Mississippi Street · 1908
The most notable decisions
Land bought for the Marina off-street parking site
Motion · 3 April 1967 ↗Soule Steel land taken to realign part of Mississippi Street
Resolution · 11 February 1935 ↗Land taken for a roadway across the Gough Street Railroad tracks
Resolution · 11 February 1935 ↗Mayor to sign a Southern Pacific deal for Army Street land
Resolution · 19 April 1920 ↗City land at Texas and Mississippi Streets opened to light industry
Ordinance · 24 June 1946 ↗Bike lanes adopted on 16th Street, turn rules changed on Broadway
Resolution · passed · 26 June 1995 ↗Mississippi Street realigned at Army Street and opened as public street
Resolution · 23 September 1935 ↗Deeds accepted for the Mississippi Street land at Army Street
Resolution · 11 February 1935 ↗The city takes over the new roadway on Mississippi Street
Ordinance · 3 April 1967 ↗Sidewalk widths set on Iowa Street between Mariposa and Army Streets
Ordinance · 8 November 1943 ↗
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