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120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 20th Ave, between 1906 and 1964, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about railroads and spur tracks, laundries, paving and grading.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 20th Ave, between 1906 and 1964
Most of them in the 1920s · 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 1930.18
LaundriesLaundries needed the Board's permission, and their neighbours sometimes objected.4
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.4
Clinics and hospitalsClinics, health centres and hospitals.4
Oil tanks and boilersFuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.3
Streetcars and transitStreetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.3

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1960s2
    Proposed: closing part of Twentieth Avenue temporarily · 1964
  2. 1950s1
    Stop signs go up at Ocean and Twentieth Avenues · 1953
  3. 1940s2
    Supervisor Jesse Colman granted three weeks' leave to travel · 1941
  4. 1930s18
    City may buy George Butler's Wawona Street land for $50,000 · 1938
  5. 1920s48
    Buildings on Divisadero Street and six avenues must sit further back · 1924
  6. 1910s13
    Proposal to buy United Railroads' lines on Sloat Boulevard (outcome not in the record) · 1916
  7. 1900s36
    Parkside Transit Company wins the Twentieth Avenue railroad franchise · 1908

The most notable decisions

  • Parkside Transit Company wins the Twentieth Avenue railroad franchise

    Resolution · 1908 ↗
    3 February 1908

  • Parkside Transit to swap Nineteenth Avenue tracks for Twentieth Avenue

    Ordinance · 1908 ↗
    18 May 1908

  • Proposal to shift the Parkside Transit line to Twentieth Avenue (outcome not in the record)

    Ordinance · 1907 ↗
    16 September 1907

  • Proposal to buy United Railroads' lines on Sloat Boulevard (outcome not in the record)

    Ordinance · 1916 ↗
    3 January 1916

  • Proposal to offer a twenty-five year railway franchise on Twentieth Avenue and W Street (outcome not in the record)

    Ordinance · 1907 ↗
    21 October 1907
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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

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Overview

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