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Columbus Ave

112 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Columbus Ave, between 1912 and 2023, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about sewers, streetcars and transit, parking.

112
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Columbus Ave, between 1912 and 2023
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What keeps coming up

SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.9
Streetcars and transitStreetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.5
ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.5
Taxis and garagesTaxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.4
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.4
The rules for this street changedRezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.3

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2020s1
    Proposal to change limits on flats per building east of Columbus Avenue (outcome not in the record) · 2023
  2. 2000s2
    Proposed, approved later: $157,541 grant proposed for pedestrian safety in Bayview Hunters Point · 2005
  3. 1990s3
    Left turns banned from Broadway onto Columbus Avenue at rush hour · 1991
  4. 1980s27
    Proposed, approved later: Chinatown rezoned with new height limits and neighborhood business districts · 1987
  5. 1970s6
    Proposed, approved later: Jackson Square historic district between Kearny and Sansome Streets proposed; introduced only · 1972
  6. 1960s13
    A resolution on northbound Kearny Street turning into Columbus Avenue · 1969
  7. 1950s6
    Rush-hour stopping banned on Broadway between Columbus Avenue and Kearny Street · 1955
  8. 1940s3
    $286,000 of Municipal Railway surplus voted for buses and trolley lines · 1942
  9. 1930s17
    Proposed: buildings to be capped at 84 feet between North Point and Union Streets · 1937
  10. 1920s20
    Payment of $16,525 to A. M. and Charlotte Meyer for Duboce Tunnel land approved · 1926
  11. 1910s14
    Payment of $23,822.45 to Clinton Fireproofing Co. for the Seventeenth Street car barn approved · 1915

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