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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.

Open Phelps St on the map, street by street

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.

  1. 2010s3
    $10.3M to replace roofs at the 750 Phelps Street sewage plant · 2013
  2. 2000s2
    Bike lanes on Oakdale Avenue and a Leidesdorff Alley closure proposed · 2004
  3. 1990s4
    Sprint Spectrum to lease utility land at 750 Phelps Street · 1997
  4. 1980s5
    Greenhouse space leased at 1150 Phelps Street for commercial growing · 1987
  5. 1970s6
    DiSalvo Trucking's lease at 800 Phelps Street loses an office building · 1972
  6. 1960s7
    Delivery trucks must park within eighteen inches of the curb · 1965
  7. 1950s8
    Williams Avenue switches to parallel parking between Third and Phelps Streets · 1959
  8. 1940s11
    Land near Islais Creek taken for the North Point sludge plant · 1945
  9. 1930s4
    Triangle on Carroll Avenue southeast of Phelps Street closed · 1932
  10. 1920s17
    $1,380 to wire the cells at County Jail No. 1 · 1927
  11. 1910s7
    Money set aside for a new sewer on Phelps Street · 1918

The most notable decisions

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