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86 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 47th Ave, between 1908 and 1984, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about sewers, railroads and spur tracks, taxis and garages.

86
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 47th Ave, between 1908 and 1984
Most of them in the 1920s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.5
Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.4
Taxis and garagesTaxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.3
Keeping horses and cowsUntil about 1930 the Board voted on whether you could keep animals at your address.2
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.2
The rules for this street changedRezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.2

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1980s1
    Night parking barred on 26th Street, angle parking on Moraga Street · 1984
  2. 1970s1
    Sidewalk permit fees waived at 800 Forty-seventh Avenue · 1976
  3. 1950s1
    Grove Street to be closed and covered by canvas in 1954 · 1953
  4. 1940s12
    Sewer easement taken from the Market Street Railway on Sloat Boulevard · 1942
  5. 1930s4
    Failed: proposal to overturn the refusal to allow shops on Forty-seventh Avenue · 1932
  6. 1920s40
    Land at Taraval and Forty-seventh offered for the streetcar loop · 1922
  7. 1910s8
    Proposed: paying Pittsburg Valve Foundry for gate valves for fire water system · 1910
  8. 1900s19
    Proposal by W. N. McCarthy about roads in the Sunset District (outcome not in the record) · 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

Cabrillo StSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on record48th AveSame block of the map, 82 decisions on recordRankin St86 decisions on record, next to it in the rankingCortland Ave84 decisions on record, next to it in the ranking

Overview

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