Stanley
30 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Stanley, between 1907 and 1976, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1950s; often about railroads and spur tracks, pg&e and the utilities, paving and grading.
What keeps coming up
- Railroads and spur tracks4Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- PG&E and the utilities3The gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.
- Paving and grading2Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1970s2Forty-five mile speed limit dropped on Stanley Drive · 1976
- 1960s2Speed limits set on Mansell Street and dropped on Stanley Drive · 1964
- 1950s14Supervisor McAteer asks that the Western Freeway leave the Master Plan · 1956
- 1940s4Tunnel to run under the Parkmerced housing project · 1944
- 1910s3Schmidt Lithograph finally granted its Bryant Street spur track · 1916
- 1900s5Millen-Griffith Company's gift becomes a park at Harrison and Stanley Place · 1908
The most notable decisions
Millen-Griffith Company's gift becomes a park at Harrison and Stanley Place
Ordinance · 24 February 1908 ↗Supervisor McAteer asks that the Western Freeway leave the Master Plan
Motion · 11 June 1956 ↗A list of streets including Pine, Mission and Vicente is adopted
Resolution · passed · 18 June 1951 ↗Millen Griffith Company thanked for a park lot on Rincon Hill
Resolution · 9 March 1908 ↗City pays San Francisco Golf Club $4,790 for road land
Ordinance · 13 August 1951 ↗City to take land by court order to widen Stanley Drive
Resolution · 6 August 1951 ↗Thomas More Way opened as a public street off Stanley Drive
Resolution · 2 December 1957 ↗Tunnel to run under the Parkmerced housing project
Departmental work · 1944 ↗Forty-five mile speed limit dropped on Stanley Drive
Ordinance · 21 June 1976 ↗Speed limits set on Mansell Street and dropped on Stanley Drive
Ordinance · 30 November 1964 ↗
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