Polk St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Polk St, between 1906 and 2016, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about land bought and sold, clinics and hospitals, sewers.
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What keeps coming up
- Land bought and sold20Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.
- Clinics and hospitals12Clinics, health centres and hospitals.
- Sewers9Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Schools9School sites bought, built and repaired.
- Paving and grading6Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Fire stations6Engine houses and fire stations.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2010s1School fundraiser parking events would be exempt from the parking tax · 2016
- 2000s1One-hour meters on the 1900 block of Polk Street would go · 2007
- 1990s2A. O. Smith donates two boilers to the Homeless Multiservice Center · 1992
- 1980s1$100,000 sought from the Mayor for Community United Against Violence · 1984
- 1970s2$32,900 voted for engineering on the Polk Street district project · 1978
- 1940s5City land at Polk and McAllister Streets to be leased out · 1944
- 1930s8Loretta O'Hara paid $16,500 for the Civic Center health building site · 1930
- 1920s13Galileo High School to be built at Bay and Polk streets · 1920
- 1910s71City sets aside $2,500 for plague suppression work · 1915
- 1900s16City Attorney to seek land for the Adams and John Swett schools · 1909
The most notable decisions
Galileo High School to be built at Bay and Polk streets
Ordinance · 1 June 1920 ↗City sets aside $2,500 for plague suppression work
Resolution · 19 July 1915 ↗$2,500 set aside to fight plague through the summer
Resolution · 12 July 1915 ↗Block bought from Harriet de Witt Kittle for a school, $118,750
Resolution · 22 December 1924 ↗$167,998.60 paid to Thos. G. Swortfiguer for Civic Center land
Resolution · 10 September 1912 ↗Loretta O'Hara paid $16,500 for the Civic Center health building site
Resolution · 12 May 1930 ↗James Conlin Company paid $33,000 for Grove Street health building land
Resolution · 12 May 1930 ↗James Otis paid $38,000 for land taken for the aquatic park
Resolution · 8 December 1919 ↗James Otis paid $38,000 for a second aquatic park lot
Resolution · 8 December 1919 ↗$38,000 to go to James Otis for aquatic park land
Resolution · 24 November 1919 ↗
Where this comes from
The street holds more than 120 decisions; this page carries the 120 most notable. 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