15th Ave
73 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 15th Ave, between 1906 and 1980, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about railroads and spur tracks, streetcars and transit, sewers.
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What keeps coming up
- Railroads and spur tracks9Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Streetcars and transit4Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- Sewers3Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Streets closed for good3Streets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.
- Schools3School sites bought, built and repaired.
- Paving and grading2Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1980s1$180,000 paid to extend Grand View Park · 1980
- 1970s1Fifteenth Avenue to be widened south of Moraga Street · 1977
- 1950s2Vicente and Taraval Streets switch to parallel parking · 1951
- 1940s2Sidewalk widths set for part of Fifteenth Avenue · 1941
- 1930s2Henry Doelger gives the city a sewer easement near Quintara Street · 1939
- 1920s32Land off Wawona Street opened to two-family housing · 1927
- 1910s21Land to be condemned for more room at the Burnett School · 1910
- 1900s12Southern Pacific allowed to shift part of its Bay Shore route · 1907
The most notable decisions
$180,000 paid to extend Grand View Park
Resolution · 4 February 1980 ↗Land to be condemned for more room at the Burnett School
Resolution · 31 October 1910 ↗John and Mary Franke to be paid $3,500 for school land
Resolution · 18 July 1910 ↗Benjamin Gilbert's Oakdale Avenue land bought for $2,000 for Burnett School
Resolution · 15 July 1910 ↗Southern Pacific allowed to shift part of its Bay Shore route
Ordinance · 28 February 1907 ↗Fifteen-mile streetcar speed limit extended to Fifteenth Avenue in the Richmond
Ordinance · 20 September 1909 ↗Fifteen mile speed limit extended through the Richmond District avenues
Ordinance · 13 September 1909 ↗Land off Wawona Street opened to two-family housing
Ordinance · 5 December 1927 ↗Land near Wawona Street and Sloat Boulevard opened to two-family housing
Ordinance · 21 November 1927 ↗Henry Doelger gives the city a sewer easement near Quintara Street
Resolution · 7 August 1939 ↗
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