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Prentiss St

17 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Prentiss St, between 1915 and 1971, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about schools, blasting permits, railroads and spur tracks.

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What keeps coming up

  • Schools6School sites bought, built and repaired.
  • Blasting permits2Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
  • Railroads and spur tracks2Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Paving and grading2Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
  • Land bought and sold2Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.

Decade by decade

Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.

  1. 1970s1
    Roadway and curbs on Tompkins Avenue passed for second reading · 1971
  2. 1930s1
    General Petroleum allowed a filling station at Twenty-second and Howard · 1930
  3. 1920s10
    Land at Banks and Prentiss streets bought for a school · 1927
  4. 1910s5
    Street levels to be changed on Prentiss Street · 1915

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