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Lawton St

111 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Lawton St, between 1910 and 2011, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about schools, parking, streetcars and transit.

111
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Lawton St, between 1910 and 2011
Most of them in the 1920s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

SchoolsSchool sites bought, built and repaired.13
ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.7
Streetcars and transitStreetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.6
Land bought and soldLand changing hands with the city on one side of it.6
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.5
Parks and playgroundsPlaygrounds and recreation grounds.5

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2010s3
    Part of La Playa Street renamed Great Highway · 2011
  2. 2000s5
    New turn lanes and a one-way stretch of Guttenberg Street · 2003
  3. 1990s2
    Stop signs set at Lawton, Beach, Clay and Laurel Streets · 1999
  4. 1980s3
    Stop signs approved at 35th Avenue and Lawton Street · 1983
  5. 1970s1
    Stop signs created at nine corners including Post and Presidio · 1976
  6. 1960s3
    Angle parking added on Lawton Street, dropped on Geary Boulevard · 1962
  7. 1950s7
    Land bought to flatten a curve on Lomita Avenue · 1952
  8. 1940s2
    Angle parking allowed on Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Avenues and Lawton Street · 1949
  9. 1930s23
    Land bought from Georges Le Roy for Sunset Playground, $8,000 · 1937
  10. 1920s57
    $1,200 paid for school land on Twelfth Avenue near Lawton Street · 1929
  11. 1910s5
    Proposal to change street levels on Lawton Street and nearby avenues (outcome not in the record) · 1912

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

Columbus Ave107 decisions on record, next to it in the ranking37th Ave106 decisions on record, next to it in the rankingSouth Van Ness Ave105 decisions on record, next to it in the ranking40th Ave104 decisions on record, next to it in the ranking

Overview

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