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Wisconsin St

108 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Wisconsin St, between 1908 and 2025, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about sewers, railroads and spur tracks, fire stations.

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What keeps coming up

  • Sewers9Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
  • Railroads and spur tracks8Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Fire stations7Engine houses and fire stations.
  • Parks and playgrounds4Playgrounds and recreation grounds.
  • Blasting permits3Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
  • Land bought and sold3Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.

Decade by decade

Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.

  1. 2020s9
    Sidewalk widths set on Arkansas, Connecticut and Wisconsin Streets · 2025
  2. 2010s12
    Development deal proposed with BRIDGE for the Potrero HOPE SF rebuild · 2017
  3. 2000s1
    Mission Bay South infrastructure agreements sent to the Land Use Committee · 2004
  4. 1990s1
    Stop signs set at Twenty-Seventh and Sanchez Streets · 1997
  5. 1980s11
    32 Pali Road to be taken for Wisconsin Street housing · 1983
  6. 1970s1
    Hearings asked on the Wisconsin Street dumping ground on Potrero Hill · 1973
  7. 1950s5
    A five-room house bought on Wisconsin Street north of Twenty-fifth · 1952
  8. 1940s21
    City land at Kearny and Chestnut given to the Park Commission · 1941
  9. 1930s18
    Sidewalk widths set on Wisconsin Street between 25th and 26th Streets · 1939
  10. 1920s12
    Block by Carolina and Wisconsin streets opened to light industry · 1928
  11. 1910s13
    Fire engine house No. 48 ordered at 22nd and Wisconsin Streets · 1913
  12. 1900s4
    City auctions twenty-year leases on its property at public sale · 1909

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