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21st Ave

103 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 21st Ave, between 1909 and 1957, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about paving and grading, railroads and spur tracks, streetcars and transit.

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What keeps coming up

  • Paving and grading11Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
  • Railroads and spur tracks4Rail 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.
  • Fire stations3Engine houses and fire stations.
  • Laundries2Laundries needed the Board's permission, and their neighbours sometimes objected.

Decade by decade

Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.

  1. 1950s4
    Redevelopment Agency's application for advance funds approved · 1951
  2. 1940s6
    $6,500 for more land at Nineteenth and Folsom for a firehouse · 1949
  3. 1930s8
    George Butler paid $10,000 for land added to Stern Grove · 1938
  4. 1920s66
    Buildings on five avenues, including Thirty-first Avenue, must sit further back · 1924
  5. 1910s11
    Crossings of Geary Street and Parker Avenue to be paved · 1913
  6. 1900s8
    Albert B. Ruggles paid $13,700 for the Holly Park School site · 1909

The most notable decisions

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