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94 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 10th Ave, between 1906 and 1963, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1900s; often about railroads and spur tracks, paving and grading, keeping horses and cows.

94
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 10th Ave, between 1906 and 1963
Most of them in the 1900s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.8
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.7
Keeping horses and cowsUntil about 1930 the Board voted on whether you could keep animals at your address.5
Oil tanks and boilersFuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.4
Streetcars and transitStreetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.3
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.3

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1960s5
    Proposed: rezoning to cover four lots at Judah Street and Tenth Avenue · 1962
  2. 1930s4
    Land for Bernal Heights Boulevard bought from Martha Moss and others · 1931
  3. 1920s27
    Proposed: Municipal Railway extension from the Great Highway to Cole Street · 1922
  4. 1910s21
    City railway planned along Geary Street to the ocean · 1912
  5. 1900s37
    City railway approved for Geary Street out to Sutro Baths · 1909

The most notable decisions

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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