York St
95 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about York St, between 1906 and 2002, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about parking, streetcars and transit, paving and grading.
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What keeps coming up
- Parking7Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- Streetcars and transit4Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- Paving and grading4Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Land bought and sold4Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.
- Railroads and spur tracks3Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Sewers3Sewers 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.
- 2000s4Permit parking set on 9th Avenue, Kirkham and 16th Avenue · 2001
- 1990s4U-turns banned on Army Street at Bryant, Harrison and York · 1990
- 1980s4Stop signs established on 22nd and 23rd Streets at York · 1987
- 1970s3Board refuses to buy the Twenty-fourth Street lot for a mini-park · 1971
- 1960s2Part of York Street between Alameda and Fifteenth closed for good · 1969
- 1950s6Vacant land bought between Hampshire and York Streets near Alameda · 1950
- 1940s6Board orders part of York Street closed for good · 1940
- 1930s10Alameda Street to be graded between Potrero Avenue and York Street · 1930
- 1920s17Olof and Charles Monson paid $70,000 for the Mariposa Street land · 1925
- 1910s24Land at York and Mariposa streets bought for a streetcar barn · 1914
- 1900s15$200 paid for a strip of York Street land for widening · 1909
The most notable decisions
Land at York and Mariposa streets bought for a streetcar barn
Resolution · 13 July 1914 ↗Olof and Charles Monson paid $70,000 for the Mariposa Street land
Resolution · 15 June 1925 ↗Land bought from James P. Burke to extend Twenty-sixth Street
Resolution · 16 September 1929 ↗James and Mary Burke sell land to extend Twenty-sixth Street, $1,500
Resolution · 12 August 1929 ↗$200 paid for a strip of York Street land for widening
Resolution · 10 April 1909 ↗City's bonded debt reported at $12.1M on October 1
Resolution · 11 October 1909 ↗Earthquake debris to be hauled to Islais Creek across the Precita Valley swamp
Resolution · 10 May 1906 ↗U-turns banned on Army Street at Bryant, Harrison and York
Resolution · 4 June 1990 ↗Vacant land bought between Hampshire and York Streets near Alameda
Resolution · 16 October 1950 ↗City to take Harper L. Knowles' land at Bryant and Division
Resolution · 12 April 1915 ↗
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