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Crescent Ave

41 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Crescent Ave, between 1910 and 2006, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about sewers, streets closed for good, parking.

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decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Crescent Ave, between 1910 and 2006

What keeps coming up

SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.7
Streets closed for goodStreets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.3
ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.3
Blasting permitsPermission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.2
Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.2
Environmental reviewNothing before the 1970s, then permanent: the review law arriving and staying.2

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2000s2
    Sherman Street closed during school terms and Cleveland Street made one-way · 2006
  2. 1980s4
    Water Department takes old Crescent Avenue land for a parking area · 1989
  3. 1970s3
    Paving bill confirmed for Banks Street south of Crescent Avenue · 1973
  4. 1960s9
    Moultrie Street south of Crescent Avenue to get a sewer · 1969
  5. 1950s3
    Proposed, approved later: City to take over new roadways on Crescent Avenue and Nevada Street · 1953
  6. 1940s4
    Beacon and Miguel Streets widened where they meet · 1943
  7. 1930s3
    Closure of Crescent Avenue, Weldon and Saul streets ordered · 1933
  8. 1920s4
    Proposal to order a sewer on Folsom Street south of Crescent Avenue (outcome not in the record) · 1922
  9. 1910s9
    Sewers to be laid in Roscoe Street south of Crescent Avenue · 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