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120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about San Jose Ave, between 1907 and 2021, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about railroads and spur tracks, housing bonds, streetcars and transit.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about San Jose Ave, between 1907 and 2021
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 1930.28
Housing bondsHow affordable housing is paid for, in the years since the 1980s.9
Streetcars and transitStreetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.8
SchoolsSchool sites bought, built and repaired.6
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.5
Fire stationsEngine houses and fire stations.2

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2020s7
    Proposal to lease 2340 San Jose Avenue for 131 affordable flats (outcome not in the record) · 2021
  2. 2010s2
    Proposal to borrow $80M in housing bonds for 2340 San Jose Avenue (outcome not in the record) · 2019
  3. 2000s3
    Federal money taken to rebuild the San Jose Avenue hillside · 2001
  4. 1990s1
    $110,027 accepted for hillside repair on San Jose Avenue · 1999
  5. 1950s2
    Proposed: payment of $8,500 to Natalie and Dimitry Sivachenko for widening land · 1951
  6. 1940s10
    $5,600 more for the new firehouse site on Sanchez Street · 1945
  7. 1930s1
    Land on San Jose Avenue to be taken for the widening · 1936
  8. 1920s83
    Proposed: $39,497.62 to Utah Construction Co. for the Hetch Hetchy dam · 1920
  9. 1910s9
    P. Broderick's land bought for a school for $9,725 · 1915
  10. 1900s2
    Eureka Construction paid for sewers in Ocean and San Jose Avenues · 1907

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

30th StSame block of the map, 61 decisions on record29th StSame block of the map, 24 decisions on recordSan Bruno Ave120+ decisions on record, next to it in the rankingSanchez St120+ 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