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120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Evans Ave, between 1912 and 2008, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about paving and grading, railroads and spur tracks, clinics and hospitals.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Evans Ave, between 1912 and 2008
Most of them in the 1910s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.11
Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.10
Clinics and hospitalsClinics, health centres and hospitals.7
PG&E and the utilitiesThe gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.6
ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.5
Blasting permitsPermission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.4

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2000s3
    New lease taken at 1325A Evans Avenue for the water utility · 2008
  2. 1990s8
    Proposed: bigger mental health lease on Evans Avenue · 1999
  3. 1980s3
    Sidewalk width changed on Third Street south of Evans Avenue · 1989
  4. 1970s3
    Quint Street to be rebuilt between Jerrold and Evans Avenues · 1973
  5. 1960s3
    Proposed, approved later: Freeway route between Palou and Evans Avenues to be struck out · 1966
  6. 1940s8
    Proposed: charter amendments ratified at the May election · 1944
  7. 1930s4
    $18,000 set aside for grading the Sunset Boulevard · 1930
  8. 1920s40
    International Diamond Drill gets $18,884 for Hetch Hetchy core borings · 1926
  9. 1910s48
    Road to Hunter's Point declared city policy · 1916

The most notable decisions

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The street holds more than 120 decisions; this page carries the 120 most notable. 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

Newhall StSame block of the map, 82 decisions on recordMendell StSame block of the map, 70 decisions on recordBurke AveSame block of the map, 14 decisions on recordEllis St120+ 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