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Newcomb Ave

60 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Newcomb Ave, between 1910 and 2015, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about railroads and spur tracks, streets closed for good, dance halls and masquerades.

60
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Newcomb Ave, between 1910 and 2015
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What keeps coming up

Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.8
Streets closed for goodStreets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.6
Dance halls and masqueradesPermits for balls and dances, named by the club holding them and the hall they hired.5
Police stationsPolice stations and the sites bought for them.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. 2010s14
    Proposal to spend Newcomb Avenue streetscape money on the 1700 block (outcome not in the record) · 2010
  2. 2000s2
    $60,000 federal grant accepted for the Clean Cities Coalition · 2009
  3. 1990s1
    Mendell Street and two others to close for Earth Day · 1991
  4. 1980s3
    Part of Newcomb Avenue closed for good near Phelps Street · 1984
  5. 1970s3
    City takes over the roadway of Newcomb Avenue and elsewhere · 1974
  6. 1960s7
    Newcomb Avenue between Quint and Rankin Streets to be improved · 1967
  7. 1950s5
    Proposed, approved later: Public Works land at Spruce and Anza Streets to be auctioned · 1953
  8. 1940s2
    Land near Islais Creek taken for the North Point sludge plant · 1945
  9. 1930s1
    City rents a small plot on Lane Street from George Molema · 1936
  10. 1920s13
    Newcomb Avenue ordered opened and extended · 1925
  11. 1910s9
    Proposal to grade and pave Newcomb Avenue at Lane Street (outcome not in the record) · 1916

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

Mckinnon AveSame block of the map, 34 decisions on recordHawes St57 decisions on record, next to it in the rankingHumboldt St56 decisions on record, next to it in the rankingBurrows St55 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