12th Ave
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 12th Ave, between 1906 and 1995, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about schools, paving and grading, blasting permits.
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What keeps coming up
- Schools14School sites bought, built and repaired.
- Paving and grading8Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Blasting permits3Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
- Railroads and spur tracks3Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Sewers3Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Fire stations3Engine houses and fire stations.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1990s1$175,000 sought to haul sewage plant grit to another landfill · 1995
- 1960s1Bill for the Twelfth Avenue paving put before the Board · 1962
- 1950s10Land bought from Atlas Realty Company for $58,000 for a school · 1952
- 1940s6Moraga Street sidewalk order near Twelfth Avenue to be repealed · 1944
- 1930s11Robert F. Galway paid for school land at Twelfth and Lawton · 1931
- 1920s47$1,200 paid for school land on Twelfth Avenue near Lawton Street · 1929
- 1910s35Fire engine house ordered on Twelfth Avenue for $37,000 · 1912
- 1900s9Land sought on Thirteenth Avenue for the Sutro School site · 1908
The most notable decisions
Land bought from Atlas Realty Company for $58,000 for a school
Resolution · 21 July 1952 ↗Paul Babow's Santiago Street lot bought for $2,000 for a school
Resolution · 19 May 1952 ↗Robert F. Galway paid for school land at Twelfth and Lawton
Resolution · 1 June 1931 ↗$1,200 paid for school land on Twelfth Avenue near Lawton Street
Resolution · 30 September 1929 ↗Carl G. Larsen's gift on Golden Gate Heights becomes a park
Resolution · 29 October 1928 ↗Land given by Carl G. Larsen to become a park
Resolution · 1 October 1928 ↗J. Karsky paid for land on Lawton Street for a school
Resolution · 12 March 1928 ↗W. W. Haley paid $20,137.50 for Twelfth Avenue school land
Resolution · 5 December 1927 ↗City to take Arguello Boulevard land for a school
Resolution · 21 November 1927 ↗Fire engine house ordered on Twelfth Avenue for $37,000
Ordinance · 19 August 1912 ↗
Where this comes from
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