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Tara St

42 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Tara St, between 1910 and 1988, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about railroads and spur tracks, sewers, blasting permits.

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What keeps coming up

  • Railroads and spur tracks8Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Sewers6Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
  • Blasting permits2Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
  • The rules for this street changed2Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1980s2
    Stop signs added where San Miguel and Tara meet Mt. Vernon · 1988
  2. 1970s1
    Map approved for widening Tara Street northeast of Niagara Avenue · 1972
  3. 1960s3
    Geneva Avenue lot west of Tara Street adopted · 1964
  4. 1950s4
    $15,000 set aside to extend Geneva Avenue to Tara Street · 1954
  5. 1930s3
    James T. Tobin given 90 more days on Harrison Street · 1930
  6. 1920s23
    Augusta Heyman paid $650 for land to extend Majestic Avenue · 1929
  7. 1910s6
    City declares it needs a new City Hall and Civic Center · 1912

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