Street
Potrero Ave
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Potrero Ave, between 1906 and 2024, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about clinics and hospitals, streetcars and transit, railroads and spur tracks.
What keeps coming up
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2020s4Proposal to give Public Health $33.7M to rebuild wards at 1001 Potrero Avenue (outcome not in the record) · 2024
- 2010s12Proposal to bar gyms and massage from industrial districts near 16th Street (outcome not in the record) · 2017
- 2000s3Proposed: bike and bus lanes for Potrero Avenue · 2005
- 1980s1Proposed, approved later: Letter asked on the status of the Health Advisory Board · 1980
- 1970s3Proposed, approved later: Community development grants put off with amendments · 1978
- 1940s2Proposed: $1,600 for railway crews' rest rooms at Potrero and Army · 1944
- 1930s12Army Street widened across playground land west of Potrero Avenue · 1933
- 1920s20Payments approved for Sunset tunnel, Hetch Hetchy and boulevard work · 1928
- 1910s44$26,125 paid to Contra Costa Construction for the Church Street railway · 1916
- 1900s19Wm. A. Newsom paid for the emergency hospital on Potrero Avenue · 1909
The most notable decisions
Payments approved for Sunset tunnel, Hetch Hetchy and boulevard work
Resolution · passed · 1928 ↗17 September 1928$26,125 paid to Contra Costa Construction for the Church Street railway
Resolution · 1916 ↗24 July 1916Proposed: $45,614.20 to Mahoney Bros. for the Van Ness Avenue railway
Resolution · proposed · 1914 ↗8 June 1914Bills paid for Steinhart Aquarium and Portola Drive street work
Resolution · 1928 ↗16 July 1928$109,500 paid to R. C. Storrie for the Twin Peaks Tunnel
Resolution · 1916 ↗18 September 1916
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Wm. A. Newsom paid for the emergency hospital on Potrero Avenue
Resolution · 1909 ↗5 April 1909University of California Regents sell Potrero Avenue land for a hospital
Resolution · 1924 ↗26 May 1924Payment of $18,900 to Ocean Shore Railroad for playground land on Army Street approved
Resolution · passed · 1917 ↗17 December 1917Proposal to accept Crocker Estate and others' land for a Bay View park (outcome not in the record)
Ordinance · 1915 ↗19 October 1915Proposal to bar gyms and massage from industrial districts near 16th Street (outcome not in the record)
Ordinance · 2017 ↗16 May 2017
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