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101 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 16th Ave, between 1906 and 1968, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about paving and grading, sewers, railroads and spur tracks.

101
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 16th Ave, between 1906 and 1968
Most of them in the 1920s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.8
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.6
Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.5
ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.4
War and the militaryThe military in the city, and what the wars did to it.4
Streetcars and transitStreetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.2

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1960s2
    Corners designated at three crossings on Clement and Cabrillo Streets. · 1968
  2. 1950s1
    Evening stopping banned on part of Second Street · 1958
  3. 1930s7
    Proposed: a sidewalk on one side only of Homer Street · 1937
  4. 1920s66
    Aug. J. Lang gives the city land for Cecilia Avenue · 1926
  5. 1910s10
    C. A. Hawkins trades new streets for the closed avenue land · 1916
  6. 1900s15
    Proposal to tell the City Attorney to condemn land for sewer and hospital sites (outcome not in the record) · 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

See also

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Overview

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