19th Ave
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 19th Ave, between 1906 and 2004, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about the rules for this street changed, railroads and spur tracks, paving and grading.
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What keeps coming up
- The rules for this street changed11Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.
- Railroads and spur tracks10Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Paving and grading8Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Sewers7Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Streetcars and transit6Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- Schools6School sites bought, built and repaired.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2000s4Zoning to change between Fifth and Nineteenth Avenues at Kirkham Street · 2000
- 1990s4Sidewalk widths changed on Nineteenth Avenue at Holloway Avenue · 1993
- 1970s4Rezoning of blocks near Lake Street put off · 1971
- 1960s1Streets closed for a carnival, street fairs and a Philippine celebration · 1969
- 1950s8Muni buses excepted from the left-turn ban at Nineteenth and Holloway · 1956
- 1940s6Map approved to extend Holloway Avenue west of Nineteenth Avenue · 1942
- 1930s25George Butler paid $10,000 for land added to Stern Grove · 1938
- 1920s35Voters approved $9.4M in bonds for new boulevards and highways · 1927
- 1910s14$4,500 to move the Southern Police Station across Clara Street · 1910
- 1900s19Parkside Transit to swap Nineteenth Avenue tracks for Twentieth Avenue · 1908
The most notable decisions
Voters approved $9.4M in bonds for new boulevards and highways
Resolution · passed · 21 November 1927 ↗George Butler paid $10,000 for land added to Stern Grove
Resolution · 5 December 1938 ↗Land bought from Georges Le Roy for Sunset Playground, $8,000
Resolution · 27 September 1937 ↗Junior college land transferred and a Geary Street lot sold off
Resolution · 6 July 1936 ↗$2,000 to go to P. C. Briggs for school land
Resolution · 24 February 1920 ↗Parkside Transit to swap Nineteenth Avenue tracks for Twentieth Avenue
Ordinance · 18 May 1908 ↗Parkside Transit agrees to shift its line to Twentieth Avenue
Ordinance · 16 September 1907 ↗Twenty-five year railway franchise offered on Twentieth Avenue and W Street
Ordinance · 21 October 1907 ↗Zoning to change between Fifth and Nineteenth Avenues at Kirkham Street
Ordinance · 30 October 2000 ↗$250,000 to put up street lights along ten boulevards
Ordinance · 12 January 1931 ↗
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