17th Ave
119 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 17th Ave, between 1906 and 1994, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about paving and grading, sewers, oil tanks and boilers.
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What keeps coming up
- Paving and grading5Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Sewers5Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Oil tanks and boilers4Fuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.
- Blasting permits3Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
- Keeping horses and cows2Until about 1930 the Board voted on whether you could keep animals at your address.
- Railroads and spur tracks2Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1990s1Four-way stops for Seventeenth Avenue at Pacheco and Ortega · 1994
- 1960s3Corners designated at three crossings on Clement and Cabrillo Streets. · 1968
- 1950s1An adoption vote with no subject on this page · 1952
- 1930s5Tivoli Way between Seventeenth and Eighteenth avenues to be closed · 1930
- 1920s84$47,742 set aside for buses on the Embarcadero · 1927
- 1910s13J. W. Egan's land near Cabrillo Street bought for a school · 1919
- 1900s12Rules changed for broken rock roadways and sidewalks · 1908
The most notable decisions
J. W. Egan's land near Cabrillo Street bought for a school
Resolution · 3 March 1919 ↗Rules changed for broken rock roadways and sidewalks
Ordinance · 29 June 1908 ↗$47,742 set aside for buses on the Embarcadero
Resolution · 10 January 1927 ↗Aug. J. Lang gives the city land for Cecilia Avenue
Resolution · 15 March 1926 ↗Buildings on Tenth, Eleventh and Seventeenth avenues would sit back
Resolution · 24 January 1927 ↗Carl G. Larsen's strip of land between Pacheco and Ortega accepted
Resolution · 22 November 1926 ↗Buildings on Seventeenth Avenue and five others to sit further back
Ordinance · 7 April 1924 ↗$60,000 set aside for repaving Clay, Fremont and Third streets
Resolution · 20 July 1908 ↗Buildings on Cervantes Boulevard will have to sit further back
Ordinance · 21 January 1929 ↗New building lines set on Presidio Avenue and San Miguel Street
Ordinance · 29 October 1928 ↗
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