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Capitol Ave

59 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Capitol Ave, between 1909 and 2013, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about parks and playgrounds, railroads and spur tracks, schools.

59
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Capitol Ave, between 1909 and 2013
Most of them in the 1920s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

Parks and playgroundsPlaygrounds and recreation grounds.12
Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.11
SchoolsSchool sites bought, built and repaired.9
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.8
Land bought and soldLand changing hands with the city on one side of it.5
ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.3

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2010s2
    Failed: proposal to refuse the 1 Capitol Avenue subdivision map · 2013
  2. 1990s2
    New stop signs adopted at Capitol, Foote and Berkshire crossings · 1994
  3. 1980s1
    Sewer clean-up costs at 374 Capitol Avenue charged to the property · 1985
  4. 1970s2
    Failed: proposal to close Lobos Street during earthquake work at Sheridan School · 1975
  5. 1960s1
    Getz Street dropped, Dwight Street and Capitol Avenue added · 1969
  6. 1950s3
    Stop signs adopted at Eureka and Eighteenth and Capitol and Holloway · 1959
  7. 1940s3
    City takes over Thrift Street between Orizaba and Capitol Avenues · 1949
  8. 1930s1
    Robert Hale freed of an old water pipe easement for $5 · 1938
  9. 1920s26
    $12,200 paid to the Lanahans for playground land on Minerva Street · 1927
  10. 1910s7
    $490 set aside for a sewer at Glen Park School · 1916
  11. 1900s11
    Edward Bauer paid for school land on Capitol 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

Streets near it on the record

Vernon59 decisions on record, next to it in the rankingOrtega St59 decisions on record, next to it in the rankingFremont St58 decisions on record, next to it in the rankingHawes St57 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