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Sierra

8 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Sierra, between 1908 and 2004, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1940s; often about railroads and spur tracks, streetcars and transit, pg&e and the utilities.

What keeps coming up

  • Railroads and spur tracks2Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Streetcars and transit2Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
  • PG&E and the utilities2The gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2000s1
    Traffic fines earmarked for Nineteenth Avenue safety, sent to committee · 2004
  2. 1940s3
    Water Department land near Calaveras Reservoir put up for sale · 1943
  3. 1910s3
    City to use United Railroads' Taraval Street tracks and buy current · 1918
  4. 1900s1
    Supervisor Murdock proposes the shorter name, Serra Boulevard · 1908

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