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Somerset St

44 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Somerset St, between 1913 and 1969, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1950s; often about protests and appeals, keeping horses and cows, schools.

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What keeps coming up

  • Protests and appeals4A protest recorded at a hearing, or an appeal against a decision — brought by neighbours and by applicants alike.
  • Keeping horses and cows3Until about 1930 the Board voted on whether you could keep animals at your address.
  • Schools2School sites bought, built and repaired.
  • Parks and playgrounds2Playgrounds and recreation grounds.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1960s14
    Hunters Point rezoned from single houses to two-family homes · 1969
  2. 1950s15
    $1,450 voted to buy Marguerite Hunter's property for a school · 1953
  3. 1940s1
    Mario and Grace Magnaghi buy Somerset Street land for $3,200 · 1946
  4. 1930s5
    Market Street Railway to be told the city intends to buy · 1938
  5. 1920s3
    City land at Silliman and Felton streets becomes a playground · 1925
  6. 1910s6
    Board orders street work recommended by Public Works in July · 1913

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