Skyline Blvd
112 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Skyline Blvd, between 1919 and 2006, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about pg&e and the utilities, streetcars and transit, railroads and spur tracks.
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What keeps coming up
- PG&E and the utilities28The gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.
- Streetcars and transit7Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- Railroads and spur tracks4Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Sewers4Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Buildings the city rents4Space the city leases from private owners, with the rent on the record.
- Parking3Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2000s6Public emergency declared on John Muir Drive after heavy rains · 2001
- 1990s2Land near the Great Highway offered to the National Park Service · 1999
- 1980s1Great Highway and Skyline Boulevard closed for cyclists and swimmers · 1988
- 1970s2Departments asked for budgets assuming the Jarvis-Gann tax initiative passes · 1978
- 1950s7Geary Expressway to be built from Broderick Street to Franklin Street · 1953
- 1940s24Kay and Shrum win a ten-year Lake Merced boating lease · 1947
- 1930s30Jail site of 245 acres to be bought from Jersey Farms · 1931
- 1920s36Fuel tax backed to build the Skyline and Bay Shore boulevards · 1926
- 1910s4City Attorney to buy land to ease a Sloat Boulevard curve · 1919
The most notable decisions
Geary Expressway to be built from Broderick Street to Franklin Street
Motion · 24 August 1953 ↗Jail site of 245 acres to be bought from Jersey Farms
Resolution · 23 November 1931 ↗City to buy 245 acres from Jersey Farms for a jail
Resolution · 5 October 1931 ↗Jail site of 245 acres to be bought for $47,500
Resolution · 13 July 1931 ↗Fuel tax backed to build the Skyline and Bay Shore boulevards
Resolution · 10 May 1926 ↗Board backs the proposed Bay Shore Highway and Skyline Boulevard
Resolution · proposed · 11 May 1925 ↗State given road easements over city water land in San Mateo
Ordinance · 22 October 1934 ↗Building the Ocean Shore Highway from Sharps Park is urged
Resolution · 14 January 1935 ↗245 acres near San Andreas Lake proposed for a city jail
Resolution · proposed · 10 September 1931 ↗Departments asked for budgets assuming the Jarvis-Gann tax initiative passes
Ordinance · 16 January 1978 ↗
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