26th Ave
73 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 26th Ave, between 1906 and 1988, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about sewers, parks and playgrounds, the rules for this street changed.
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What keeps coming up
- Sewers3Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Parks and playgrounds3Playgrounds and recreation grounds.
- The rules for this street changed3Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.
- Land and buildings split up3A lot split in two, or a building divided into flats that sell separately.
- Wires put underground2Districts where overhead wires had to come down.
- Libraries2Branch libraries — several of them shops the city rented one year at a time.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1980s3Lakeshore Park special zoning proposed near Lake Merced Boulevard · 1988
- 1960s1Resolution adopted on a two-flat building near Twenty-sixth and Anza · 1969
- 1930s4Fernando Nelson & Sons' conduits in Merced Manor taken over · 1934
- 1920s51Stella and Frank Semone's deed for Bay View playground land accepted · 1921
- 1910s12New stone sidewalks ordered along the south side of Geary Street · 1917
- 1900s2Streets closed in the district south of V Street · 1906
The most notable decisions
Stella and Frank Semone's deed for Bay View playground land accepted
Resolution · 15 August 1921 ↗Playground Commission to buy Mather camp buildings for $12,500
Resolution · 22 June 1925 ↗Lakeshore Park special zoning proposed near Lake Merced Boulevard
Resolution · proposed · 14 November 1988 ↗Stendebachs sell land for $1 to realign Wawona Street
Resolution · 18 February 1929 ↗Buildings on Twenty-fourth through Twenty-seventh avenues to sit further back
Ordinance · 29 August 1927 ↗Buildings on Fifth Avenue and three others to sit further back
Ordinance · 5 May 1924 ↗Board fixes how far back buildings must sit on four avenues
Ordinance · 23 July 1923 ↗New stone sidewalks ordered along the south side of Geary Street
Ordinance · 19 November 1917 ↗Fernando Nelson & Sons' conduits in Merced Manor taken over
Resolution · 23 July 1934 ↗Buildings on Twenty-first and Forty-seventh avenues to sit further back
Ordinance · 19 December 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