Tennessee St
68 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Tennessee St, between 1906 and 2015, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about parking, environmental review, fire stations.
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What keeps coming up
- Parking11Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- Environmental review10Nothing before the 1970s, then permanent: the review law arriving and staying.
- Fire stations6Engine houses and fire stations.
- Railroads and spur tracks3Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Streetcars and transit3Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- Paving and grading3Cutting 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.
- 2010s2AGI-TMG agrees to rent out units at 1201-1225 Tennessee Street · 2015
- 2000s9Stop signs set at 18th and Tennessee and Kelly and Brannan · 2005
- 1990s1Only police may park on 20th Street between Third and Tennessee · 1990
- 1980s5Night parking barred on 26th Street, angle parking on Moraga Street · 1984
- 1970s13John Hancock paid $1.08M for the Municipal Railway coach yard site · 1973
- 1960s5Bond money allotted to rebuild fire houses and headquarters · 1965
- 1950s5City takes over Twenty-fifth Street between Pennsylvania Avenue and Third Street · 1956
- 1940s6Army allowed to occupy Minnesota and Tennessee Streets for the war · 1943
- 1930s8Marin Street to be closed between Third and Indiana streets · 1931
- 1920s7Bond Construction Co. to build Engine House 16 on Tennessee Street · 1925
- 1900s7Street levels changed on Sixteenth Street and Tennessee Street · 1909
The most notable decisions
Bond money allotted to rebuild fire houses and headquarters
Ordinance · 26 April 1965 ↗Bond Construction Co. to build Engine House 16 on Tennessee Street
Resolution · 6 July 1925 ↗John Hancock paid $1.08M for the Municipal Railway coach yard site
Resolution · 13 August 1973 ↗Carley & Hamilton's Tennessee Street land bought for the Fire Department
Resolution · 3 November 1924 ↗Diamond Heights and Stockton Street engine houses put back, second reading
Ordinance · 19 April 1965 ↗Army allowed to occupy Minnesota and Tennessee Streets for the war
Resolution · 25 October 1943 ↗Carley & Hamilton paid $5,000 for land on Tennessee Street
Resolution · 24 November 1924 ↗City takes over 24th Street between Third and Tennessee Streets
Ordinance · 8 April 1974 ↗Map approved for opening Tubbs Street from Indiana to Tennessee
Resolution · passed · 6 September 1966 ↗City takes over Twenty-fifth Street between Pennsylvania Avenue and Third Street
Ordinance · 21 May 1956 ↗
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