Qipu
The city

Street

12th Ave

120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 12th Ave, between 1906 and 1995, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about schools, paving and grading, blasting permits.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 12th Ave, between 1906 and 1995
Most of them in the 1920s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

SchoolsSchool sites bought, built and repaired.14
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.8
Blasting permitsPermission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.3
Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.3
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.3
Fire stationsEngine houses and fire stations.3

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1990s1
    Proposed: $175,000 to haul sewage plant grit to another landfill · 1995
  2. 1960s1
    Bill for the Twelfth Avenue paving put before the Board · 1962
  3. 1950s10
    Land bought from Atlas Realty Company for $58,000 for a school · 1952
  4. 1940s6
    Moraga Street sidewalk order near Twelfth Avenue to be repealed · 1944
  5. 1930s11
    Robert F. Galway paid for school land at Twelfth and Lawton · 1931
  6. 1920s47
    $1,200 paid for school land on Twelfth Avenue near Lawton Street · 1929
  7. 1910s35
    Fire engine house ordered on Twelfth Avenue for $37,000 · 1912
  8. 1900s9
    Land sought on Thirteenth Avenue for the Sutro School site · 1908

The most notable decisions

See 5 more documents

The street holds more than 120 decisions; this page carries the 120 most notable. 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

See also

Streets near it on the record

14th Ave120+ decisions on record, next to it in the ranking15th St120+ decisions on record, next to it in the ranking16th St120+ decisions on record, next to it in the ranking17th St120+ decisions on record, next to it in the ranking

Overview

The city, drawn from its own recordEvery block, and what the Board of Supervisors decided there