Utah St
76 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Utah St, between 1907 and 1991, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about railroads and spur tracks, paving and grading, sewers.
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What keeps coming up
- Railroads and spur tracks10Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Paving and grading5Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Sewers4Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Parking4Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- Streetcars and transit3Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- Protests and appeals3A protest recorded at a hearing, or an appeal against a decision — brought by neighbours and by applicants alike.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1990s524th Street closed in stages between Balmy and Utah Streets · 1991
- 1980s1Parking bans set on Fulton, Utah and Gilroy Streets · 1988
- 1970s3Land near Utah Street and San Bruno Avenue bought for parkland · 1976
- 1940s12Market and Mission Streets to be resurfaced once tracks come out · 1949
- 1930s8Santa Clara County gets a road easement across Calaveras Reservoir land · 1934
- 1920s15Three owners paid for land to widen Nineteenth and Utah Streets · 1929
- 1910s27$55,000 provided for the Starr King School at Twenty-fifth and Utah · 1912
- 1900s5Independent Oil Company allowed an oil pipe on Potrero Avenue · 1908
The most notable decisions
$55,000 provided for the Starr King School at Twenty-fifth and Utah
Resolution · 8 April 1912 ↗$55,000 to build the Starr King School at Twenty-fifth and Utah
Resolution · 11 March 1912 ↗Land near Utah Street and San Bruno Avenue bought for parkland
Resolution · 22 November 1976 ↗Land at Twenty-fifth and Utah streets taken for Starr King School
Resolution · 15 January 1912 ↗$14,500 paid to Margaret Hayden for Starr King School land
Resolution · 8 January 1912 ↗Land at Nineteenth and Potrero to be taken for city railway
Resolution · 6 October 1913 ↗Santa Clara County gets a road easement across Calaveras Reservoir land
Resolution · 20 August 1934 ↗Light industry allowed off Nineteenth Street between Potrero and Utah
Resolution · 29 June 1931 ↗Spediaccis and Emily F. Gallagher deed land for Alemany Boulevard
Resolution · 4 May 1931 ↗Three owners paid for land to widen Nineteenth and Utah Streets
Resolution · 14 October 1929 ↗
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