Niagara
10 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Niagara, between 1913 and 1931, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about railroads and spur tracks, sewers, blasting permits.
What keeps coming up
- Railroads and spur tracks5Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Sewers5Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Blasting permits2Permission 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.
The most notable decisions
S. Nathan leases city land on Jackson Street
Ordinance · 7 April 1913 ↗City accepts Southern Pacific's sewer right of way on Niagara Street
Ordinance · 7 April 1913 ↗$80 for sidewalks outside the San Francisco Hospital on Twenty-second Street
Resolution · 20 November 1922 ↗Permit for 3135 Twenty-fourth Street must be used within six months
Resolution · 9 February 1931 ↗Eaton & Smith allowed to blast for grading on Niagara Street
Resolution · 20 April 1925 ↗Southern Pacific offers a sewer right of way on Niagara Street
Ordinance · 31 March 1913 ↗Southern Pacific's Niagara Street sewer deed referred to the City Attorney
Ordinance · 24 March 1913 ↗Permit sought for premises at Mission and Niagara Streets
Resolution · proposed · 24 February 1931 ↗
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