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10th Ave

94 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 10th Ave, between 1906 and 1963, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1900s; often about railroads and spur tracks, paving and grading, keeping horses and cows.

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What keeps coming up

  • Railroads and spur tracks8Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Paving and grading7Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
  • Keeping horses and cows5Until about 1930 the Board voted on whether you could keep animals at your address.
  • Oil tanks and boilers4Fuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.
  • Streetcars and transit3Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
  • Sewers3Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1960s5
    Rezoning covers four lots at Judah Street and Tenth Avenue · 1962
  2. 1930s4
    Land for Bernal Heights Boulevard bought from Martha Moss and others · 1931
  3. 1920s27
    Municipal Railway extension proposed from the Great Highway to Cole Street · 1922
  4. 1910s21
    City railway planned along Geary Street to the ocean · 1912
  5. 1900s37
    City railway approved for Geary Street out to Sutro Baths · 1909

The most notable decisions

Where this comes from

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