Phelps St
74 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Phelps St, between 1910 and 2013, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about pg&e and the utilities, streets closed for good, parking.
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What keeps coming up
- PG&E and the utilities7The gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.
- Streets closed for good6Streets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.
- Parking5Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- Blasting permits3Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
- Railroads and spur tracks3Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Paving and grading3Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2010s3$10.3M to replace roofs at the 750 Phelps Street sewage plant · 2013
- 2000s2Bike lanes on Oakdale Avenue and a Leidesdorff Alley closure proposed · 2004
- 1990s4Sprint Spectrum to lease utility land at 750 Phelps Street · 1997
- 1980s5Greenhouse space leased at 1150 Phelps Street for commercial growing · 1987
- 1970s6DiSalvo Trucking's lease at 800 Phelps Street loses an office building · 1972
- 1960s7Delivery trucks must park within eighteen inches of the curb · 1965
- 1950s8Williams Avenue switches to parallel parking between Third and Phelps Streets · 1959
- 1940s11Land near Islais Creek taken for the North Point sludge plant · 1945
- 1930s4Triangle on Carroll Avenue southeast of Phelps Street closed · 1932
- 1920s17$1,380 to wire the cells at County Jail No. 1 · 1927
- 1910s7Money set aside for a new sewer on Phelps Street · 1918
The most notable decisions
Delivery trucks must park within eighteen inches of the curb
Ordinance · 24 May 1965 ↗Chalk marks on parked tires may not be rubbed off
Ordinance · 23 August 1965 ↗Rubbing chalk marks off tires to become a crime
Ordinance · 16 August 1965 ↗Jitney bus licence fees to follow the number of seats
Ordinance · 21 June 1965 ↗Williams Avenue switches to parallel parking between Third and Phelps Streets
Resolution · 31 August 1959 ↗Sprint Spectrum to lease utility land at 750 Phelps Street
Resolution · 5 May 1997 ↗DiSalvo Trucking's lease at 800 Phelps Street loses an office building
Resolution · 24 April 1972 ↗Land near Islais Creek taken for the North Point sludge plant
Resolution · 11 June 1945 ↗$6,000 voted for radio telephones at Hetch Hetchy
Ordinance · 17 March 1952 ↗$1,380 to wire the cells at County Jail No. 1
Resolution · 8 August 1927 ↗
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