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119 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 17th Ave, between 1906 and 1994, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about paving and grading, sewers, oil tanks and boilers.

119
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 17th Ave, between 1906 and 1994
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.5
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.5
Oil tanks and boilersFuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.4
Blasting permitsPermission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.3
Keeping horses and cowsUntil about 1930 the Board voted on whether you could keep animals at your address.2
Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.2

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1990s1
    Four-way stops for Seventeenth Avenue at Pacheco and Ortega · 1994
  2. 1960s3
    Corners designated at three crossings on Clement and Cabrillo Streets. · 1968
  3. 1950s1
    An adoption vote with no subject on this page · 1952
  4. 1930s5
    Tivoli Way between Seventeenth and Eighteenth avenues to be closed · 1930
  5. 1920s84
    Proposed, approved later: set aside $47,742 for buses on the Embarcadero · 1927
  6. 1910s13
    J. W. Egan's land near Cabrillo Street bought for a school · 1919
  7. 1900s12
    Rules changed for broken rock roadways and sidewalks · 1908

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

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