16th Ave
101 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 16th Ave, between 1906 and 1968, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about paving and grading, sewers, railroads and spur tracks.
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What keeps coming up
- Paving and grading8Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Sewers6Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Railroads and spur tracks5Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Parking4Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- War and the military4The military in the city, and what the wars did to it.
- Streetcars and transit2Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1960s2Corners designated at three crossings on Clement and Cabrillo Streets. · 1968
- 1950s1Evening stopping banned on part of Second Street · 1958
- 1930s7Homer Street to have a sidewalk on one side only · 1937
- 1920s66Aug. J. Lang gives the city land for Cecilia Avenue · 1926
- 1910s10C. A. Hawkins trades new streets for the closed avenue land · 1916
- 1900s15City Attorney told to condemn land for sewer and hospital sites · 1909
The most notable decisions
City Attorney told to condemn land for sewer and hospital sites
Resolution · 20 September 1909 ↗Marsden Manson to make San Francisco's case for a water supply
Ordinance · 31 July 1907 ↗Aug. J. Lang gives the city land for Cecilia Avenue
Resolution · 15 March 1926 ↗Homer Street to have a sidewalk on one side only
Ordinance · 23 February 1937 ↗Buildings on Cervantes Boulevard will have to sit further back
Ordinance · 21 January 1929 ↗Buildings on Sixteenth and Ridgewood avenues to sit further back
Ordinance · 19 December 1927 ↗How far back buildings must sit changed on Fourteenth Avenue
Ordinance · 3 October 1927 ↗Sixteenth Avenue, Parker Avenue and Santiago Street buildings must sit back
Ordinance · 19 September 1927 ↗Buildings on Pacheco Street and Fourteenth Avenue must sit further back
Ordinance · 19 September 1927 ↗Buildings on Sixteenth and Parker avenues to sit further back
Ordinance · 29 August 1927 ↗
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