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Newhall St

82 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Newhall St, between 1909 and 2024, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about railroads and spur tracks, blasting permits, police stations.

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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.
  • Blasting permits4Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
  • Police stations4Police stations and the sites bought for them.
  • Oil tanks and boilers3Fuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.
  • Paving and grading3Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
  • 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. 2020s3
    Private security proposed for the Medical Examiner at 1 Newhall Street · 2024
  2. 2010s4
    $5.3M option to buy the industrial building at 1 Newhall Street · 2011
  3. 2000s2
    Public health department leases industrial space at 1 Newhall Street · 2007
  4. 1990s7
    Parts of Yosemite and Armstrong Avenues to be closed and sold · 1993
  5. 1980s1
    Angle parking on Palou Avenue and no parking on Clara Street · 1988
  6. 1970s4
    Keith and Newhall Streets partly closed in the India Basin area · 1979
  7. 1960s2
    James Allan & Sons allowed steam tunnels under Newhall Street · 1963
  8. 1950s3
    City to take over the roadway of Egbert Avenue · 1958
  9. 1940s19
    New stretch of Holloway Avenue declared an open public street · 1942
  10. 1930s12
    City land at Bush and Stockton Streets to be leased out · 1935
  11. 1920s14
    Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum's land at Bay View accepted as street · 1926
  12. 1910s9
    Land taking for a police station near Norwood Avenue dropped · 1910
  13. 1900s2
    City to take H. P. Striegel's land for a police station · 1909

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