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Van Ness Ave

120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Van Ness Ave, between 1906 and 2015, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about streetcars and transit, railroads and spur tracks, pg&e and the utilities.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Van Ness Ave, between 1906 and 2015
Most of them in the 1910s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

Streetcars and transitStreetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.17
Railroads and spur tracksRail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.9
PG&E and the utilitiesThe gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.9
SewersSewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.7
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.6
War and the militaryThe military in the city, and what the wars did to it.6

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2010s10
    30 Van Ness Avenue to be sold for at least $87M · 2015
  2. 2000s4
    Proposed: [name withheld] leasing a mail shop at the Moscone Center Garage · 2000
  3. 1990s3
    Proposed, approved later: $1.2M proposed to buy the building at 25 Van Ness Avenue · 1991
  4. 1980s1
    Street bond engineers to be housed at 25 Van Ness Avenue · 1989
  5. 1940s2
    City land on Eddy Street sold for $3,350 to Wallace Sheehan · 1944
  6. 1930s23
    Failed: proposal to fund a trolley bus line from Beale to Army Street for $228,000 · 1939
  7. 1920s31
    Proposed: Galileo High School to be built at Bay and Polk streets · 1920
  8. 1910s39
    Payment of $47,668.01 to Western Contracting Co. for the Market Street railway extension approved · 1918
  9. 1900s7
    Proposed: new City Hall bond vote, again after the June defeat · 1909

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

Golden Gate AveSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordPolk StSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordTurk StSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordVallejo 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