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Ocean Ave

120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Ocean Ave, between 1906 and 2025, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about sewers, parking, streetcars and transit.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Ocean Ave, between 1906 and 2025
Most of them in the 1910s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.14
ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.14
Streetcars and transitStreetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.10
PG&E and the utilitiesThe gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.9
Environmental reviewNothing before the 1970s, then permanent: the review law arriving and staying.9
Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.8

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2020s8
    Proposed: development deal with Reservoir Community Partners at Balboa Reservoir · 2020
  2. 2000s7
    Proposed: sidewalk widths to change on Ocean Avenue for the K line · 2000
  3. 1990s3
    Parking rules changed on Plymouth Avenue, Buchanan and Willow Streets · 1997
  4. 1980s4
    Proposal to seek $12.2M to extend the J-Church line to the Metro Center (outcome not in the record) · 1984
  5. 1970s3
    $950,000 for Municipal Railway land at Twenty-second and Indiana · 1972
  6. 1960s8
    $20,000 paid to Arthur Smith for the Geneva Avenue widening · 1964
  7. 1950s7
    Proposed: road money for Clarendon Avenue, West Portal and Geary Street · 1952
  8. 1940s5
    Failed: appeal of the Plymouth Avenue rezoning over duplexes near Ocean Avenue · 1945
  9. 1930s10
    Gas tax money agreed for Ocean Avenue and Islais Creek bridge · 1936
  10. 1920s21
    Proposed, approved later: Commodore Sloat School to be built on Junipero Serra Boulevard · 1920
  11. 1910s32
    Proposal to set $200,000 for the maintenance of minors in the budget list (outcome not in the record) · 1913
  12. 1900s12
    Proposal to name the boulevard from Ocean Avenue to the county line Junipero Serra (outcome not in the record) · 1908

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

Alemany BlvdSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordPersia AveSame block of the map, 27 decisions on recordLeo StSame block of the map, 23 decisions on recordRuth StSame block of the map, 1 decision on record

Overview

The city, drawn from its own recordEvery block, and what the Board of Supervisors decided there