Upper Ter
34 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Upper Ter, between 1910 and 1989, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about paving and grading, blasting permits, sewers.
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What keeps coming up
- Paving and grading6Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Blasting permits2Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
- Sewers2Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1980s1Change in how employee pension contributions are paid sent to committee · 1989
- 1970s1Washington Street between Stockton and Powell turned one-way westbound · 1972
- 1960s1Ray Finegan Builders allowed a stairway and deck on Monument Way · 1965
- 1950s1Land traded to John E. Bauman for an Upper Terrace stairway · 1959
- 1940s3Land taken from William Humphrey for Upper Terrace and a sewer · 1942
- 1930s2Old Upper Terrace grade plan to be repealed · 1932
- 1920s2R. J. O'Connell allowed to set off blasts on Upper Terrace · 1927
- 1910s23Ocean Avenue to be narrowed from 100 feet to 80 · 1913
The most notable decisions
Land traded to John E. Bauman for an Upper Terrace stairway
Ordinance · 7 December 1959 ↗Land taken from William Humphrey for Upper Terrace and a sewer
Resolution · 24 August 1942 ↗Washington Street between Stockton and Powell turned one-way westbound
Resolution · 14 August 1972 ↗Widening map approved for Sixteenth Street between Seventh and Illinois
Resolution · passed · 9 November 1942 ↗Map approved for the extension of Upper Terrace
Resolution · passed · 9 November 1942 ↗Ocean Avenue to be narrowed from 100 feet to 80
Ordinance · 6 October 1913 ↗William and Myrtle Humphrey give land to widen Upper Terrace
Ordinance · 16 June 1913 ↗Ocean Avenue narrowed from 100 feet to 80 feet
Ordinance · 14 October 1913 ↗Clifford Street to be paved between Upper Terrace and Pluto Street
Ordinance · 16 December 1918 ↗The east half of Upper Terrace to be improved
Ordinance · 23 July 1917 ↗
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