Vernon
59 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Vernon, between 1914 and 1988, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about paving and grading, sewers, schools.
What keeps coming up
- Paving and grading8Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Sewers8Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Schools4School sites bought, built and repaired.
- Streetcars and transit3Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- The rules for this street changed3Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.
- Keeping horses and cows2Until about 1930 the Board voted on whether you could keep animals at your address.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1980s2Stop signs added where San Miguel and Tara meet Mt. Vernon · 1988
- 1970s1One-way streets established on Howth and Louisburg Streets · 1976
- 1960s1Map approved to realign San Jose Avenue near Mt. Vernon Avenue · 1968
- 1950s3Getz Street to be improved with about $2,600 in city aid · 1958
- 1940s1City to take over Williar Avenue between Niagara and Mt. Vernon · 1947
- 1930s5Caution signs installed on Guerrero Street and Duboce Avenue · 1931
- 1920s37Children's Agency paid $27,013.27 for the care of minors · 1926
- 1910s9$36,080.00 set aside to finish the Morgue and County Jail building · 1914
The most notable decisions
Children's Agency paid $27,013.27 for the care of minors
Motion · 21 June 1926 ↗Western Pipe and Steel paid $56,266.68 for the Bay Crossing pipeline
Resolution · 16 November 1925 ↗$36,080.00 set aside to finish the Morgue and County Jail building
Resolution · 24 February 1914 ↗Bond Construction paid $16,500 for the San Jose Avenue bridge
Resolution · 11 January 1926 ↗Bond Construction gets $97,140 to build the San Jose Avenue bridge
Resolution · 17 August 1925 ↗Bond Construction to build the San Jose Avenue bridge for $97,140
Resolution · 10 August 1925 ↗Payment for land taken for the Market Street extension
Resolution · 6 December 1926 ↗Annie Curry paid $12,960 for land to widen Alemany Boulevard
Resolution · 18 October 1926 ↗Bond Construction paid $19,500 for the San Jose Avenue bridge
Resolution · 8 March 1926 ↗Bond Construction Co. paid $16,500 for the San Jose Avenue bridge
Resolution · 25 January 1926 ↗
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