Niagara Ave
21 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Niagara Ave, between 1914 and 1986, 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, sewers.
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What keeps coming up
- Railroads and spur tracks7Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Paving and grading6Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Sewers3Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Streetcars and transit2Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1980s1Moving the CalTrain terminal to the Transbay Terminal is proposed · 1986
- 1970s1Map approved for widening Tara Street northeast of Niagara Avenue · 1972
- 1940s2Sewer easement on Delano Avenue put up for auction · 1947
- 1920s16Block between De Haro and Carolina streets opened to light industry · 1925
- 1910s1Two strips of land taken on each side of Corbett Avenue · 1914
The most notable decisions
Moving the CalTrain terminal to the Transbay Terminal is proposed
Resolution · proposed · 24 November 1986 ↗Block between De Haro and Carolina streets opened to light industry
Ordinance · 5 January 1925 ↗Spring Valley Lumber Yard paid $570 to widen San Jose Avenue
Resolution · 11 February 1924 ↗A. Lercari's deed for land near Niagara Avenue accepted
Resolution · 29 August 1921 ↗Daniel Riordan's deed for land on Niagara Avenue accepted
Resolution · 29 August 1921 ↗Two strips of land taken on each side of Corbett Avenue
Resolution · 21 December 1914 ↗Map approved for widening Tara Street northeast of Niagara Avenue
Resolution · passed · 30 October 1972 ↗Buildings on San Miguel Street must sit fifteen feet back
Ordinance · 29 October 1928 ↗Southern half of Niagara Avenue to be paved and curbed
Ordinance · 11 June 1928 ↗Niagara Avenue to be graded and paved to Tara Street
Ordinance · 5 January 1925 ↗
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