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Thornton Ave

27 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Thornton Ave, between 1910 and 1999, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about keeping horses and cows, railroads and spur tracks, paving and grading.

27
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Thornton Ave, between 1910 and 1999
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What keeps coming up

Keeping horses and cowsUntil about 1930 the Board voted on whether you could keep animals at your address.2
Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.2
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.2
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.2
ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.2
The rules for this street changedRezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.2

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1990s3
    New all-way stop at Thornton, Reddy and Topeka · 1999
  2. 1980s1
    Repair bills confirmed at eight addresses, with Thornton Avenue voted separately · 1987
  3. 1970s1
    Two pedestrian underpasses to close at Thornton Avenue and Burrows Street · 1977
  4. 1950s5
    Thornton Avenue sidewalks cut from ten feet to five · 1954
  5. 1940s5
    Proposed: the City taking over the roadways of Ledyard and Mercury Streets · 1941
  6. 1930s2
    Permit on Mission Street near Main Street lasts six months · 1931
  7. 1920s4
    Thornton Avenue to be graded, sewered and paved to Vesta Street · 1929
  8. 1910s6
    Proposed, approved later: San Bruno Avenue to be paved between Felton and Silliman streets · 1914

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

Bay View StSame block of the map, 27 decisions on recordFlora StSame block of the map, 9 decisions on recordTopeka AveSame block of the map, 5 decisions on recordOttawa Ave26 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