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97 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 36th Ave, between 1906 and 1990, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about paving and grading, schools, railroads and spur tracks.

97
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 36th Ave, between 1906 and 1990
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
SchoolsSchool sites bought, built and repaired.5
Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.4
PG&E and the utilitiesThe gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.4
Land bought and soldLand changing hands with the city on one side of it.3
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.2

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1990s1
    Tow-away zone set on Quintara Street near Sunset Boulevard · 1990
  2. 1980s1
    Thirty-sixth Avenue closed for a Filipino Fiesta street fair · 1988
  3. 1970s1
    Proposed: closing Thirty-sixth Avenue as a Lafayette School playground · 1972
  4. 1960s2
    Corner of Geary Boulevard and Thirty-sixth Avenue limited to single houses · 1960
  5. 1950s3
    Parking meters added on parts of Thirty-sixth, Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Avenues · 1956
  6. 1940s6
    City takes over the crossing of Thirty-sixth Avenue and Ortega Street · 1941
  7. 1930s6
    City to trade Lake Merced land with Spring Valley Company · 1933
  8. 1920s53
    Proposal to take Pine Lake Park blocks near Wawona and Yerba (outcome not in the record) · 1928
  9. 1910s12
    Geary Street crossings at Thirty-third and Thirty-fifth avenues to be paved · 1914
  10. 1900s12
    Bay View Land Company's deed opens three new avenues south · 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

Streets near it on the record

Divisadero St97 decisions on record, next to it in the rankingChenery St97 decisions on record, next to it in the rankingBluxome St96 decisions on record, next to it in the rankingConnecticut St96 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