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61 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 6th Ave, between 1906 and 1975, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about oil tanks and boilers, railroads and spur tracks, taxis and garages.

61
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 6th Ave, between 1906 and 1975
Most of them in the 1920s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

Oil tanks and boilersFuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.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
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.3
LaundriesLaundries needed the Board's permission, and their neighbours sometimes objected.2
Streets closed for goodStreets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.2

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1970s1
    Laguna Street made one-way and turns banned on other streets · 1975
  2. 1960s2
    Angle parking added on Kearny Street, dropped on Sixth Avenue · 1964
  3. 1950s2
    City takes over the new roadway on Kirkham Street · 1952
  4. 1920s22
    Proposal to improve the north half of Geary Street near Sixth Avenue (outcome not in the record) · 1929
  5. 1910s16
    $1,500 to buy J. G. Walker land for Hunter's Point Boulevard · 1917
  6. 1900s18
    Offers sought for the Frank McCoppin and Sheridan school sites · 1909

The most notable decisions

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  • Proposal to pay $1,500 to Jessie Wickham and others for Hunters Point Boulevard land (outcome not in the record)

    Resolution · 1917 ↗
    22 January 1917

  • School lot on Sixth Avenue given to the Police Department

    Ordinance · 1909 ↗
    20 December 1909

  • Proposal to take over Geary Street between Ninth and Tenth avenues (outcome not in the record)

    Ordinance · 1910 ↗
    21 February 1910

  • Laguna Street made one-way and turns banned on other streets

    Resolution · 1975 ↗
    18 August 1975

  • Angle parking added on Kearny Street, dropped on Sixth Avenue

    Resolution · 1964 ↗
    3 February 1964

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

Clement StSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on record5th AveSame block of the map, 63 decisions on recordCornwall StSame block of the map, 5 decisions on record30th St61 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