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Orizaba Ave

63 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Orizaba Ave, between 1914 and 1990, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about streetcars and transit, the rules for this street changed, railroads and spur tracks.

63
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Orizaba Ave, between 1914 and 1990
Most of them in the 1920s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

Streetcars and transitStreetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.5
The rules for this street changedRezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.5
Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.4
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.3
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.3
Land bought and soldLand changing hands with the city on one side of it.2

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1990s1
    Proposed: zoning change at 8 Orizaba Avenue · 1990
  2. 1980s2
    Proposed: finding of no harm from Ocean Avenue rezoning · 1983
  3. 1960s2
    No further hearing wanted on the Southern Freeway past Orizaba Avenue · 1960
  4. 1950s4
    Adopted, the Southern Freeway from Orizaba Avenue to the Bayshore · 1956
  5. 1930s12
    Proposal to form an assessment district around Orizaba Avenue and Montana Street (outcome not in the record) · 1931
  6. 1920s35
    Proposed: taking a block near Darien Way for a school · 1927
  7. 1910s7
    Payment of $3,850 to Westinghouse for transformers for the Hetch Hetchy project approved · 1917

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