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45 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Galvez Ave, between 1913 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, streets closed for good, sewers.

45
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Galvez Ave, between 1913 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.5
Streets closed for goodStreets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.5
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.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. 2000s1
    Innes, Galvez and Donahue to be closed at Hunters Point · 2008
  2. 1980s4
    Angle parking established on Newhall Street between Evans and Galvez · 1988
  3. 1970s8
    Galvez Avenue and Quint Street closed for the sewage plant · 1978
  4. 1960s2
    Proposed: changing street levels on Hawes Street · 1966
  5. 1950s6
    $500 paid Colma for a Sunset water supply line easement · 1951
  6. 1940s2
    Land near Islais Creek taken for the North Point sludge plant · 1945
  7. 1930s3
    Street levels changed on Galvez and Hudson avenues · 1936
  8. 1920s4
    Louis J. Cohn given 90 more days on Galvez Avenue · 1925
  9. 1910s15
    Proposed: to ban beef cattle in the city except near Islais Street corrals · 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