Wawona St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Wawona St, between 1910 and 2024, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about the rules for this street changed, sewers, protests and appeals.
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What keeps coming up
- The rules for this street changed16Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.
- Sewers6Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Protests and appeals6A protest recorded at a hearing, or an appeal against a decision — brought by neighbours and by applicants alike.
- Railroads and spur tracks5Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Streets closed for good4Streets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.
- Blasting permits3Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2020s8Height and use rules set for the Wawona Street cultural center · 2024
- 2010s9Law Library lease at 1145 Market Street sent to committee · 2013
- 1990s7Part of Wawona Street to be closed and sold · 1998
- 1980s6New turn bans and one-way streets adopted around the city · 1980
- 1970s3Wawona Street to close for the United Irish Cultural Center festival · 1979
- 1960s1Turns from Market Street into South Van Ness Avenue adopted · 1964
- 1950s2Crestlake Drive widened and made an open public street · 1954
- 1940s28Pueblo Street extended south to the county line · 1946
- 1930s18George Butler paid $10,000 for land added to Stern Grove · 1938
- 1920s31City to take Pine Lake Park blocks near Wawona and Yerba · 1928
- 1910s7City to condemn Beckwith and Clark land for the Trocadero sewer · 1917
The most notable decisions
George Butler paid $10,000 for land added to Stern Grove
Resolution · 5 December 1938 ↗City to take Pine Lake Park blocks near Wawona and Yerba
Resolution · 23 January 1928 ↗Streetcar extension proposed down 46th Avenue to Vicente Street, costing $63,000
Resolution · proposed · 29 September 1933 ↗New turn bans and one-way streets adopted around the city
Resolution · passed · 25 August 1980 ↗City joins a $3,000 study of the Peninsula's water supply
Resolution · 10 May 1926 ↗Height and use rules set for the Wawona Street cultural center
Ordinance · 11 June 2024 ↗Wawona Street property to be reclassified
Ordinance · 5 December 1927 ↗Land near Wawona Street and Sloat Boulevard opened to two-family housing
Ordinance · 21 November 1927 ↗Municipal Railway carries 81 million riders and still turns a profit
Ordinance · 11 January 1937 ↗William Stendebach gives land to extend Wawona Street to Twenty-eighth Avenue
Resolution · 14 September 1936 ↗
Where this comes from
The street holds more than 120 decisions; this page carries the 120 most notable. 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