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Parker Ave

119 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Parker Ave, between 1908 and 1995, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about cemeteries and funerals, paving and grading, railroads and spur tracks.

119
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Parker Ave, between 1908 and 1995
Most of them in the 1910s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

Cemeteries and funeralsBurial and the trades around it, at their heaviest as the city closed its cemeteries.20
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.11
Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.9
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.8
Protests and appealsA protest recorded at a hearing, or an appeal against a decision — brought by neighbours and by applicants alike.8
The rules for this street changedRezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.5

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1990s2
    Proposed: rules for calculating public aid grants · 1995
  2. 1980s1
    Proposal to allow University of San Francisco underground cables under Fulton Street (outcome not in the record) · 1989
  3. 1970s5
    Proposed: adding and removing crosswalks on Parker Avenue · 1972
  4. 1960s2
    San Francisco College for Women allowed a road onto Parker Avenue · 1962
  5. 1950s5
    Stop signs set at Anza and Parker and at Darien Way · 1956
  6. 1940s5
    Failed: proposal to put wires underground in Laurel Heights, formerly Laurel Hill Cemetery · 1946
  7. 1930s22
    Bodies to be removed from Calvary Cemetery within three years · 1936
  8. 1920s37
    Proposal to tell Calvary Cemetery to begin moving bodies within two years (outcome not in the record) · 1924
  9. 1910s38
    Proposed: amended plans for Geary Street Railway track construction · 1912
  10. 1900s2
    Sidewalks on Parker Avenue set at fifteen and twelve feet wide · 1908

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

Stanyan StSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordOctavia St118 decisions on record, next to it in the rankingFederal118 decisions on record, next to it in the rankingRhode Island St117 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