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117 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 39th Ave, between 1908 and 1987, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about railroads and spur tracks, schools, paving and grading.

117
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 39th Ave, between 1908 and 1987
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 1930.12
SchoolsSchool sites bought, built and repaired.12
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.8
The rules for this street changedRezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.6
Land bought and soldLand changing hands with the city on one side of it.5
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.3

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1980s1
    Stop signs proposed at Thirty-ninth and Forty-third Avenues · 1987
  2. 1970s1
    Part of Thirty-ninth Avenue closed for a school playground · 1978
  3. 1960s4
    Southbound traffic on Thirty-ninth Avenue may only turn right at Sloat · 1967
  4. 1950s3
    A five-room house bought on Ortega Street near Thirty-ninth Avenue · 1950
  5. 1940s15
    Failed: proposal to take land between Quintara and Ortega Streets · 1946
  6. 1930s19
    Four owners paid for school land near Castro and Clipper streets · 1930
  7. 1920s53
    Proposed: $4,323.42 to Jacob and Joseph Harris for school land · 1929
  8. 1910s18
    Carl G. Larsen's offer of library land accepted for $7,000 · 1914
  9. 1900s3
    Street levels to be changed on Fulton Street and nearby avenues · 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

Taraval St117 decisions on record, next to it in the rankingBerry St116 decisions on record, next to it in the rankingQuint St115 decisions on record, next to it in the rankingFilbert St114 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