27th Ave
62 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 27th Ave, between 1908 and 1954, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about land and buildings split up, paving and grading, sewers.
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What keeps coming up
- Land and buildings split up4A lot split in two, or a building divided into flats that sell separately.
- Paving and grading3Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Sewers3Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1950s3$24,000 voted to rebuild sewer and pavement on Twenty-seventh Avenue · 1954
- 1940s9Sidewalk widths reset on Rhode Island Street, one stretch abolished · 1946
- 1930s2Stone sidewalks ordered on Flood Avenue and other city streets · 1930
- 1920s36Veterans' Welfare Board sells Cook Street land for a school, $8,000 · 1928
- 1910s11Money set aside to survey the Baker's Beach outfall sewer · 1913
- 1900s1Street levels set on Shrader, Cole, Belvedere and Grattan streets · 1908
The most notable decisions
Veterans' Welfare Board sells Cook Street land for a school, $8,000
Resolution · 27 August 1928 ↗Buildings on Francisco Street and eight avenues must sit further back
Ordinance · 28 January 1924 ↗Money set aside to survey the Baker's Beach outfall sewer
Resolution · 25 August 1913 ↗Buildings on Twenty-fourth through Twenty-seventh avenues to sit further back
Ordinance · 29 August 1927 ↗New public street named Camino Del Mar west of Twenty-seventh Avenue
Resolution · 12 December 1921 ↗Street work on Geary Street between 27th and 28th avenues
Departmental work · 1914 ↗Sidewalk widths reset on Rhode Island Street, one stretch abolished
Ordinance · 6 May 1946 ↗Building distances from the street changed on Twenty-ninth Avenue
Ordinance · 1 March 1928 ↗Building distances from the street to change on Twenty-ninth Avenue
Ordinance · 20 February 1928 ↗Buildings on Twenty-fourth to Twenty-seventh avenues must sit further back
Ordinance · 6 September 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