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Valparaiso St

17 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Valparaiso St, between 1908 and 1968, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1950s; often about the rules for this street changed, sewers, schools.

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What keeps coming up

  • The rules for this street changed12Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.
  • Sewers2Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
  • Schools2School sites bought, built and repaired.
  • Protests and appeals2A 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.

  1. 1960s1
    Valparaiso Street closed as a playground for John Hancock School · 1968
  2. 1950s13
    Appeal against the rezoning refusal at Mason and Valparaiso Streets · 1953
  3. 1920s1
    Clinton Construction Co. gets $115,784.50 for the Army Street sewer · 1923
  4. 1900s2
    Mary Ellen Russell's estate offered $10,800 for Hancock School land · 1908

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