Ord St
47 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Ord St, between 1910 and 1941, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about protests and appeals, railroads and spur tracks, land and buildings split up.
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What keeps coming up
- Protests and appeals3A protest recorded at a hearing, or an appeal against a decision — brought by neighbours and by applicants alike.
- Railroads and spur tracks2Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Land and buildings split up2A lot split in two, or a building divided into flats that sell separately.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
The most notable decisions
$3,500 paid to Mary Frances Flaherty for Twin Peaks tunnel land
Resolution · 16 November 1914 ↗Change to when installments and interest must be paid
Ordinance · 10 September 1912 ↗Meyer Bros. gives land to widen Marietta Drive in Miraloma Park
Resolution · 4 August 1941 ↗Mildred Kearny's land taken for the Saturn Street extension, $1,750
Resolution · 3 September 1918 ↗$386.70 to buy lots sold over the Saturn Street extension
Resolution · 17 September 1917 ↗City to accept the Demartini land extending Vulcan Street
Ordinance · 19 April 1915 ↗Two strips of land taken on each side of Corbett Avenue
Resolution · 21 December 1914 ↗$374.16 to buy two lots for the Vulcan Street extension
Resolution · 9 November 1914 ↗Ord Court opened as a public street off Ord Street
Resolution · 14 October 1940 ↗Market Street Extension to be built from Mono Street to Ord
Ordinance · 6 July 1926 ↗
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