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Pennsylvania Ave

38 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Pennsylvania Ave, between 1906 and 1998, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about railroads and spur tracks, parking, sewers.

38
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Pennsylvania Ave, between 1906 and 1998
Most of them in the 1920s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.7
ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.5
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.3
Streets closed for goodStreets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.3
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.2
Permission to open somethingA shop, a clinic, a wrecking yard, a dispensary: uses that needed asking for.2

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1990s6
    Proposed, approved later: Drinking barred in more parks without permission, passed on · 1998
  2. 1980s2
    Emergency repair approved for the water main in Pennsylvania Avenue · 1984
  3. 1970s1
    Proposed: the City taking over the new roadway on Pennsylvania Avenue · 1971
  4. 1960s6
    Rule adopted on Army Street, Edgehill Way and Monroe Street · 1963
  5. 1950s2
    Part of Twenty-third Street west of Pennsylvania Avenue closed for good · 1953
  6. 1940s2
    Sidewalk widths set on Iowa Street between Mariposa and Army Streets · 1943
  7. 1930s1
    Proposal to clear sand from Mission and Trumbull streets and build bulkheads (outcome not in the record) · 1930
  8. 1920s11
    Street levels to be changed on Army Street and Pennsylvania Avenue · 1920
  9. 1910s6
    California Pacific Title swaps land for the closed Tulare Street strips · 1919
  10. 1900s1
    Refugee cottages allowed on Pennsylvania Avenue · 1906

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

Jamestown Ave36 decisions on record, next to it in the rankingGilman Ave36 decisions on record, next to it in the ranking28th St35 decisions on record, next to it in the rankingClara St35 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