Street
19th Ave
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 19th Ave, between 1906 and 2004, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about the rules for this street changed, railroads and spur tracks, paving and grading.
What keeps coming up
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2000s4Proposed, approved later: Zoning to change between Fifth and Nineteenth Avenues at Kirkham Street · 2000
- 1990s4Sidewalk widths changed on Nineteenth Avenue at Holloway Avenue · 1993
- 1970s4Proposed, approved later: Rezoning of blocks near Lake Street put off · 1971
- 1960s1Streets closed for a carnival, street fairs and a Philippine celebration · 1969
- 1950s8Muni buses excepted from the left-turn ban at Nineteenth and Holloway · 1956
- 1940s6Map approved to extend Holloway Avenue west of Nineteenth Avenue · 1942
- 1930s25Payment of $10,000 to George Butler for land added to Stern Grove approved · 1938
- 1920s35Voters approved $9.4M in bonds for new boulevards and highways · 1927
- 1910s14Proposal to spend $4,500 to move the Southern Police Station across Clara Street (outcome not in the record) · 1910
- 1900s19Parkside Transit to swap Nineteenth Avenue tracks for Twentieth Avenue · 1908
The most notable decisions
Voters approved $9.4M in bonds for new boulevards and highways
Resolution · passed · 1927 ↗21 November 1927Payment of $10,000 to George Butler for land added to Stern Grove approved
Resolution · passed · 1938 ↗5 December 1938Land bought from Georges Le Roy for Sunset Playground, $8,000
Resolution · 1937 ↗27 September 1937Proposed: transfer of junior college land and sale of a Geary Street lot
Resolution · proposed · 1936 ↗6 July 1936Proposal to pay $2,000 to P. C. Briggs for school land (outcome not in the record)
Resolution · 1920 ↗24 February 1920
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Parkside Transit to swap Nineteenth Avenue tracks for Twentieth Avenue
Ordinance · 1908 ↗18 May 1908Proposal to shift the Parkside Transit line to Twentieth Avenue (outcome not in the record)
Ordinance · 1907 ↗16 September 1907Proposal to offer a twenty-five year railway franchise on Twentieth Avenue and W Street (outcome not in the record)
Ordinance · 1907 ↗21 October 1907Proposed, approved later: Zoning to change between Fifth and Nineteenth Avenues at Kirkham Street
Ordinance · passed · 2000 ↗30 October 2000$250,000 to put up street lights along ten boulevards
Ordinance · 1931 ↗12 January 1931
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