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Napoleon St

51 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Napoleon St, between 1914 and 1988, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about railroads and spur tracks, paving and grading, protests and appeals.

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What keeps coming up

  • Railroads and spur tracks5Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Paving and grading5Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
  • Protests and appeals4A protest recorded at a hearing, or an appeal against a decision — brought by neighbours and by applicants alike.
  • Sewers3Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.

Decade by decade

Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.

  1. 1980s2
    Emergency sewer repair on Toland Street south of Napoleon Street · 1988
  2. 1940s3
    $5,800 for two access roads to the Marine Corps depot · 1943
  3. 1920s23
    $238,000 set aside for Bay Shore Boulevard from Potrero to Silver · 1928
  4. 1910s23
    Evans Avenue and Army Street ordered opened and widened · 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