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102 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 8th Ave, between 1906 and 1992, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about parking, railroads and spur tracks, paving and grading.

102
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 8th Ave, between 1906 and 1992
Most of them in the 1920s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.8
Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.5
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.4
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.3
Protests and appealsA protest recorded at a hearing, or an appeal against a decision — brought by neighbours and by applicants alike.3
Wires put undergroundDistricts where overhead wires had to come down.2

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1990s7
    Power lines to go underground on Eighth Avenue in the Sunset · 1992
  2. 1980s3
    Food concession lease approved for Golden Gate Park and Marina Green · 1980
  3. 1960s11
    Proposed, approved later: $11,000 to be paid to [name withheld] for the Eighth Avenue parking site · 1965
  4. 1950s3
    Sylvia Hanson and Dilys Evans buy Eighth Avenue land for $6,200 · 1953
  5. 1940s2
    Proposal to start construction on Cornwall Street from 8th Avenue to Arguello Boulevard (outcome not in the record) · 1949
  6. 1930s6
    $28,900 for street widening with Works Progress Administration crews · 1939
  7. 1920s37
    Eighth Avenue between Geary and Clement streets opened to shops · 1922
  8. 1910s10
    Proposed: City taking over Geary Street roadway between Seventh and Eighth · 1912
  9. 1900s23
    Street work ordered on Eighth 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

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Overview

The city, drawn from its own recordEvery block, and what the Board of Supervisors decided there