Vernon St
26 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Vernon St, between 1913 and 1998, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about blasting permits, streetcars and transit, sewers.
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What keeps coming up
- Blasting permits2Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
- Streetcars and transit2Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- 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.
- 1990s1Stop signs established at 25th and Hampshire and Garfield and Vernon · 1998
- 1950s7City takes over new roadways on Cambridge, Felton and Vernon Streets · 1953
- 1920s9Costello and Panena sell land to widen Randolph Street for streetcars · 1923
- 1910s9Vernon Street to be extended north to Holloway Avenue · 1913
The most notable decisions
Costello and Panena sell land to widen Randolph Street for streetcars
Resolution · 8 October 1923 ↗Margaret Rowe and four neighbors sell land to widen Randolph Street
Resolution · 15 October 1923 ↗City parcels set apart as part of Garfield Street
Resolution · 6 December 1926 ↗Vernon Street to be extended north to Holloway Avenue
Resolution · 27 October 1913 ↗City takes over new roadways on Cambridge, Felton and Vernon Streets
Ordinance · 19 October 1953 ↗How far back buildings must sit fixed on Sadowa Street
Ordinance · 14 December 1925 ↗How far back buildings must sit set on Sadowa Street
Ordinance · 7 December 1925 ↗Nearby lots to pay for extending Vernon Street to Holloway Avenue
Resolution · 29 June 1914 ↗Ralston Street and Worcester Avenue paving finally passed with $9,500 aid
Ordinance · passed · 28 April 1952 ↗Ralston Street and Worcester Avenue paving ordered with about $9,500 aid
Resolution · 14 April 1952 ↗
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