28th Ave
92 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 28th Ave, between 1907 and 1990, 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, paving and grading, sewers.
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What keeps coming up
- The rules for this street changed17Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.
- Paving and grading6Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Sewers3Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Taxis and garages2Taxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.
- Streets closed for a day2Parades, street fairs, block parties, ground-breakings, festivals.
- Parking2Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1990s1Part of Twenty-Eighth Avenue to close for a block party · 1990
- 1980s1Twenty-eighth Avenue closed for a Project SAFE block party · 1988
- 1950s21Parking meters added on Geary Boulevard at Twenty-seventh Avenue · 1953
- 1940s1John Morris's aid lien on Twenty-eighth Avenue put behind a mortgage · 1940
- 1930s5Land bought from Georges Le Roy for Sunset Playground, $8,000 · 1937
- 1920s45Sidewalks ordered on Geary Street between Twenty-fourth and Twenty-eighth avenues · 1928
- 1910s15John Brickell Company gives Sea Cliff street land to the city · 1916
- 1900s3C. S. Harney given thirty more days to grade H Street · 1907
The most notable decisions
Land bought from Georges Le Roy for Sunset Playground, $8,000
Resolution · 27 September 1937 ↗Land off Lawton Street to be taken for a public playground
Resolution · 17 August 1936 ↗William Stendebach gives land to extend Wawona Street to Twenty-eighth Avenue
Resolution · 14 September 1936 ↗John Brickell Company gives Sea Cliff street land to the city
Ordinance · 19 June 1916 ↗Sidewalks ordered on Geary Street between Twenty-fourth and Twenty-eighth avenues
Ordinance · 24 December 1928 ↗The Geary Street sidewalk order between Twenty-fourth and Twenty-eighth repealed
Ordinance · 24 December 1928 ↗New stone sidewalks ordered along the south side of Geary Street
Ordinance · 19 November 1917 ↗Street work on Geary Street between 27th and 28th avenues
Departmental work · 1914 ↗Parking meters added on Geary Boulevard at Twenty-seventh Avenue
Resolution · 29 June 1953 ↗Building distances from the street changed on Twenty-ninth Avenue
Ordinance · 1 March 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