Williams Ave
33 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Williams Ave, between 1924 and 1993, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1930s; often about railroads and spur tracks.
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What keeps coming up
- Railroads and spur tracks4Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1990s5Parts of Yosemite and Armstrong Avenues to be closed and sold · 1993
- 1950s2Off-center traffic lanes signed on Mendell Street between Yosemite and Williams · 1959
- 1940s4Part of Wallace Avenue at Mendell Street to be closed · 1940
- 1930s12New Williams Avenue bridge to be accepted for franchise obligations · 1938
- 1920s10Barrett & Hilp to build the Douglass-Everett School on Sanchez Street · 1925
The most notable decisions
Barrett & Hilp to build the Douglass-Everett School on Sanchez Street
Resolution · 15 June 1925 ↗New Williams Avenue bridge to be accepted for franchise obligations
Resolution · 21 February 1938 ↗Off-center traffic lanes signed on Mendell Street between Yosemite and Williams
Resolution · 31 August 1959 ↗Williams Avenue switches to parallel parking between Third and Phelps Streets
Resolution · 31 August 1959 ↗Land south of Williams Avenue to allow light industry
Ordinance · 20 June 1927 ↗Light industry allowed near Williams Avenue and Third Street
Ordinance · 20 June 1927 ↗Joseph Smith sells a lot for $175 to widen Williams Avenue
Resolution · 29 June 1936 ↗City land at Bush and Stockton Streets to be leased out
Ordinance · 8 July 1935 ↗$9,100 paid for land to widen Williams Avenue
Resolution · 26 January 1931 ↗United States Metal Products paid $9,100 to widen Williams Avenue
Resolution · 12 January 1931 ↗
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