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Fairfax Ave

80 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Fairfax Ave, between 1912 and 2026, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about railroads and spur tracks, streets closed for good, paving and grading.

80
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Fairfax Ave, between 1912 and 2026
Most of them in the 1910s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.10
Streets closed for goodStreets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.8
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.7
Blasting permitsPermission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.3
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.3
Fire stationsEngine houses and fire stations.3

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2020s11
    Hunters View streets taken over by the city · 2026
  2. 2000s4
    Portions of Fairfax Avenue and West Point Road to close · 2009
  3. 1980s4
    Galvez and Fairfax Avenues closed in a $277,500 shoreline park swap · 1986
  4. 1970s9
    Mendell Street lots near Fairfax Avenue rezoned, finally passed · 1973
  5. 1960s3
    Fairfax Avenue improvement taken back and shelved · 1967
  6. 1950s6
    Proposal for a tunnel running 3,700 feet from Palou and Griffiths to Keith Street (outcome not in the record) · 1952
  7. 1940s2
    Streets to be closed for a federal housing project · 1943
  8. 1930s1
    Proposed: banning pig keeping outside a strip near Arthur Avenue · 1932
  9. 1920s6
    P. M. Schoenfeld allowed a cabinet shop on Fairfax Avenue · 1923
  10. 1910s34
    Land seizure dropped for the Hunters Point streetcar extension · 1919

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

Randolph St79 decisions on record, next to it in the rankingMiraloma79 decisions on record, next to it in the rankingKeith St78 decisions on record, next to it in the rankingSickles Ave78 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