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49 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Silver, between 1908 and 2006, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about sewers, land and buildings split up, parks and playgrounds.

What keeps coming up

  • Sewers10Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
  • Land and buildings split up10A lot split in two, or a building divided into flats that sell separately.
  • Parks and playgrounds5Playgrounds and recreation grounds.
  • Protests and appeals3A protest recorded at a hearing, or an appeal against a decision — brought by neighbours and by applicants alike.
  • Oil tanks and boilers2Fuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.
  • 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. 2000s3
    City Fields Foundation gives turf fields worth $4.5M · 2006
  2. 1970s2
    Walking underpass between Elmira Street and Silver Terrace to close · 1979
  3. 1950s5
    Silver Avenue land bought for $70,000 for Silver Terrace Playground · 1950
  4. 1940s4
    Rehabilitation and construction money finally passed for Glen Park and Miraloma · 1949
  5. 1930s2
    Fernando Nelson's Silver Terrace subdivision map approved and streets accepted · 1939
  6. 1920s18
    Land to be condemned to widen Silver Avenue at Charter Oak · 1928
  7. 1910s8
    Southern Pacific grants room for a sewer under its tracks · 1910
  8. 1900s7
    Digging up streets for pipes and wires would be regulated · 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