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48th Ave

86 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 48th Ave, between 1908 and 2011, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about sewers, streetcars and transit, libraries.

86
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 48th Ave, between 1908 and 2011
Most of them in the 1910s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.17
Streetcars and transitStreetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.5
LibrariesBranch libraries — several of them shops the city rented one year at a time.4
Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.3
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.3
Keeping horses and cowsUntil about 1930 the Board voted on whether you could keep animals at your address.2

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2010s1
    Proposed, approved later: Fee waiver for the 48th Avenue stairway · 2011
  2. 1990s1
    Angle parking on Noriega Street adds ten spaces · 1994
  3. 1970s3
    48th Avenue made one-way northbound between Sutro Heights and Anza · 1978
  4. 1960s1
    Part of Forty-Eighth Avenue renamed Great Highway · 1961
  5. 1950s2
    Stop signs set at corners on Guerrero Street and Portola Drive · 1951
  6. 1940s7
    The city takes over Ulloa Street between Forty-sixth and Forty-eighth · 1944
  7. 1930s12
    Meyer Brothers gives the city a five-foot strip in Miraloma Park · 1932
  8. 1920s25
    Payment of $46,250 to Republic Supply for Hetch Hetchy steel pipe approved · 1925
  9. 1910s32
    Proposed: $45,614.20 to Mahoney Bros. for the Van Ness Avenue railway · 1914
  10. 1900s2
    Adolph Sutro's estate allowed to blast along Cliff Avenue · 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

Cabrillo StSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on record47th AveSame block of the map, 84 decisions on record38th Ave82 decisions on record, next to it in the rankingBay Shore82 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