Orizaba
16 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Orizaba, between 1913 and 1960, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about sewers, streetcars and transit.
What keeps coming up
- Sewers5Sewers 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.
The most notable decisions
$5,000 set aside to fight Spanish influenza in San Francisco
Resolution · 14 October 1918 ↗Jno. Reid Jr. paid $1,416 for Park-Presidio school plans
Resolution · 30 December 1918 ↗J. P. Holland paid $3,527.07 for grading Army Street
Resolution · 27 November 1918 ↗Orizaba Street to be extended north to Holloway Avenue
Resolution · 3 November 1913 ↗Sidewalks on Sagamore Street set at twelve feet
Ordinance · 18 August 1913 ↗New sewers to be laid under Orizaba Street
Ordinance · 16 July 1917 ↗$1,500 to caulk joints in the Lake Merced sewers
Resolution · 28 May 1917 ↗Sewers planned along Orizaba Street to drain the Ocean View District
Departmental work · 1916 ↗Orizaba Street proposed to be extended to Holloway Avenue
Resolution · proposed · 25 August 1913 ↗City horseshoer's pay set at $7 a day
Ordinance · 30 December 1918 ↗
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