Taraval St
117 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Taraval St, between 1912 and 2024, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about streetcars and transit, taxis and garages, railroads and spur tracks.
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What keeps coming up
- Streetcars and transit22Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- Taxis and garages10Taxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.
- Railroads and spur tracks7Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Sewers7Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Police stations7Police stations and the sites bought for them.
- Paving and grading6Cutting 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.
- 2020s2Street fair fees waived on Irving, Noriega and Taraval Streets · 2024
- 2000s4Big new buildings along the 19th Avenue corridor need special permission · 2008
- 1990s2$46,420 emergency sewer replacement at the Taraval and Dewey rotary · 1995
- 1980s1Tow-away zones set on Greenwich Street and Taraval Street · 1985
- 1970s1Removal of swastika graffiti asked for the Taraval Street tunnel · 1979
- 1960s4An adoption vote over Iowa, Indiana and Twenty-sixth Streets · 1960
- 1950s5Vicente and Taraval Streets switch to parallel parking · 1951
- 1940s3Planning Commission overruled on building lines along Thirty-sixth Avenue · 1941
- 1930s25Streetcar extension proposed down 46th Avenue to Vicente Street, costing $63,000 · 1933
- 1920s41Plans ordered for a Municipal Railway line along Taraval Street · 1921
- 1910s29City to use United Railroads' Taraval Street tracks and buy current · 1918
The most notable decisions
Plans ordered for a Municipal Railway line along Taraval Street
Resolution · 19 September 1921 ↗City to use United Railroads' Taraval Street tracks and buy current
Ordinance · 12 November 1918 ↗A. J. Raisch paid $9,186.15 for the Taraval Street line
Resolution · 23 September 1918 ↗Meyer Bros. paid $78,250 for school land near Taraval Street
Resolution · 25 May 1925 ↗City buys Serafino Tognotti's land on Bartol Street for a school
Resolution · 23 October 1922 ↗Sunset Police Station to be built on Twenty-fourth Avenue for $77,167
Resolution · 8 October 1928 ↗City orders land taken for a tunnel near Taraval Street
Resolution · 7 October 1912 ↗Streetcar extension proposed down 46th Avenue to Vicente Street, costing $63,000
Resolution · proposed · 29 September 1933 ↗Through service ordered on the Taraval Street line at rush hours
Resolution · 19 February 1923 ↗Big new buildings along the 19th Avenue corridor need special permission
Resolution · 28 October 2008 ↗
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