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105 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 40th Ave, between 1907 and 1966, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about paving and grading, sewers, blasting permits.

105
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 40th Ave, between 1907 and 1966
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.11
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.5
Blasting permitsPermission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.2
Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.2
Protests and appealsA protest recorded at a hearing, or an appeal against a decision — brought by neighbours and by applicants alike.2

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1960s4
    Anderson Street to be improved with about $9,500 in city aid · 1966
  2. 1950s4
    $11,000 each paid George LaBrash and John Murray for school land · 1951
  3. 1940s12
    Land at Quintara Street and Thirty-seventh Avenue to be acquired · 1946
  4. 1920s62
    Proposal to pay $12,435.79 to Associated Charities for widows' pensions (outcome not in the record) · 1920
  5. 1910s14
    City accepts George A. Newhall's deed for widening Geary Street · 1915
  6. 1900s9
    $95,000 sewer ordered in H Street out to Fortieth Avenue · 1909

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

South Van Ness Ave105 decisions on record, next to it in the rankingLawton St105 decisions on record, next to it in the rankingKing St104 decisions on record, next to it in the ranking21st Ave103 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