11th Ave
66 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 11th Ave, between 1907 and 1986, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about railroads and spur tracks, paving and grading, pg&e and the utilities.
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What keeps coming up
- Railroads and spur tracks2Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Paving and grading2Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- PG&E and the utilities2The gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.
- Land and buildings split up2A lot split in two, or a building divided into flats that sell separately.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1980s1Seniors outdoor park proposed for Visitation Valley · 1986
- 1970s2San Francisco joins Oakland and San Jose in an airport study · 1970
- 1950s2Concrete sidewalks ordered on Eleventh Avenue south of Ortega Street · 1951
- 1940s2Geary Street work from Third Avenue to Eleventh Avenue · 1941
- 1930s8City orders a bulkhead built on Lawton Street near Eleventh Avenue · 1932
- 1920s24Ortega Street land accepted from California Pacific Title Insurance · 1925
- 1910s13New sidewalk line set on Quintara Street between Eleventh and Twelfth · 1917
- 1900s14City takes over the new roadway on Eleventh Avenue · 1908
The most notable decisions
Geary Street work from Third Avenue to Eleventh Avenue
Departmental work · 1941 ↗Ortega Street land accepted from California Pacific Title Insurance
Resolution · 30 March 1925 ↗Great Western Syndicate land near Ortega Street to be taken
Resolution · 28 April 1924 ↗San Francisco joins Oakland and San Jose in an airport study
Ordinance · 4 May 1970 ↗Forty-second Avenue and Quintara Street get rules on where buildings sit
Ordinance · 9 March 1925 ↗How far back buildings must sit is set along Broadway
Ordinance · 10 December 1923 ↗New sidewalk line set on Quintara Street between Eleventh and Twelfth
Ordinance · 2 April 1917 ↗City takes over the new roadway on Balboa Street
Ordinance · 29 August 1910 ↗City takes over the new roadway on Eleventh Avenue
Ordinance · 26 October 1908 ↗City to take over the new roadway on Eleventh Avenue
Ordinance · 19 October 1908 ↗
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