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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.

Open Vernon St on the map, street by street

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.

  1. 1990s1
    Stop signs established at 25th and Hampshire and Garfield and Vernon · 1998
  2. 1950s7
    City takes over new roadways on Cambridge, Felton and Vernon Streets · 1953
  3. 1920s9
    Costello and Panena sell land to widen Randolph Street for streetcars · 1923
  4. 1910s9
    Vernon Street to be extended north to Holloway Avenue · 1913

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