Willard St
39 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Willard St, between 1909 and 2005, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about railroads and spur tracks, paving and grading, parking.
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What keeps coming up
- Railroads and spur tracks7Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Paving and grading4Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Parking4Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- Sewers3Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- PG&E and the utilities3The gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.
- Cemeteries and funerals2Burial and the trades around it, at their heaviest as the city closed its cemeteries.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2000s2Board urges a three-way stop at Frederick and Willard Streets · 2005
- 1980s1Parking regulations proposed for Willard Street · 1982
- 1940s3Szatmary land on Frederick Street bought for $44,200 for Kezar Stadium · 1949
- 1930s2Recreation land near Edward and Rossi Streets transferred for street use · 1937
- 1920s23Bodies at Odd Fellows Cemetery to be removed within five years · 1924
- 1910s7City conditionally takes over Laguna Street between Bay and Beach streets · 1910
- 1900s1Fire cisterns proposed at Duboce and Sanchez for $36,000 · 1909
The most notable decisions
Bodies at Odd Fellows Cemetery to be removed within five years
Ordinance · 21 April 1924 ↗Szatmary land on Frederick Street bought for $44,200 for Kezar Stadium
Resolution · 17 October 1949 ↗Colton land bought for $14,500 to extend Kezar Stadium
Resolution · 8 August 1949 ↗Market Street Railway paid $8,878 for stadium land at Frederick Street
Resolution · 16 November 1925 ↗Bodies must leave the Odd Fellows Cemetery within two years
Ordinance · 25 June 1928 ↗Land bought from Timothy B. Healy on Frederick Street
Resolution · 17 August 1925 ↗City conditionally takes over Laguna Street between Bay and Beach streets
Ordinance · 5 December 1910 ↗Turk Street widened and paved from Masonic Avenue to Willard Street
Departmental work · 1927 ↗Potrero Hills roadway finished between Carolina and Rhode Island Streets
Departmental work · 1926 ↗La Salle Avenue to be paved between Phelps and Quint Streets
Ordinance · 22 December 1924 ↗
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