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Burnett Ave

93 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Burnett Ave, between 1915 and 2018, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about streets closed for good, pg&e and the utilities, the rules for this street changed.

93
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Burnett Ave, between 1915 and 2018
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What keeps coming up

Streets closed for goodStreets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.14
PG&E and the utilitiesThe gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.5
The rules for this street changedRezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.5
Environmental reviewNothing before the 1970s, then permanent: the review law arriving and staying.5
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

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2010s4
    Proposed: sale of Burnett Avenue parcels for $1.5M to settle a lawsuit · 2018
  2. 1990s1
    Findings adopted for the 445 Burnett Avenue permit · 1990
  3. 1980s17
    Burnett Avenue at Dixie Alley rezoned from public land to houses · 1985
  4. 1970s9
    Walti air rights swapped to protect the view from Burnett Avenue · 1973
  5. 1960s10
    Proposal to set aside $900,000 for deteriorated sewers and $109,000 for refugees (outcome not in the record) · 1968
  6. 1950s16
    Proposed: trading land on Twin Peaks Boulevard for land on Burnett Avenue · 1952
  7. 1940s9
    Proposed: effort to keep the Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard open · 1949
  8. 1930s7
    Block near Twin Peaks Boulevard to be limited to single homes · 1938
  9. 1920s2
    Proposal to take land where Burnett Avenue meets Portola drive (outcome not in the record) · 1929
  10. 1910s18
    Whitney Engineering to supply a $24,100 locomotive for Hetch Hetchy · 1918

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

Hopkins AveSame block of the map, 2 decisions on recordPresidio Ave91 decisions on record, next to it in the rankingDouglass St91 decisions on record, next to it in the rankingMain St89 decisions on record, next to it in the ranking

Overview

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