29th Ave
86 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 29th Ave, between 1907 and 1974, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about schools, parking, railroads and spur tracks.
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What keeps coming up
- Schools6School sites bought, built and repaired.
- Parking4Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- Railroads and spur tracks3Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Laundries2Laundries needed the Board's permission, and their neighbours sometimes objected.
- Taxis and garages2Taxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.
- Streetcars and transit2Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1970s4Angle parking allowed on Twenty-ninth Avenue near Noriega Street · 1974
- 1960s1Resolution adopted at nine corners including Divisadero Street, subject not named · 1969
- 1940s4City takes over Pacheco Street between Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Avenues · 1949
- 1930s4Land off Lawton Street to be taken for a public playground · 1936
- 1920s67Block at Clement Street and Twenty-ninth Avenue handed to the schools · 1927
- 1910s4Fulton Street to be curbed from Twenty-eighth to Thirty-seventh Avenue · 1915
- 1900s2Felix McHugh given sixty more days on Twenty-ninth Avenue · 1907
The most notable decisions
Land off Lawton Street to be taken for a public playground
Resolution · 17 August 1936 ↗Block at Clement Street and Twenty-ninth Avenue handed to the schools
Resolution · 20 June 1927 ↗Block at Clement and Twenty-ninth Avenue transferred to the School Department
Resolution · 9 May 1927 ↗Pine Lake Park urged as the site for a veterans' hospital
Resolution · 18 May 1931 ↗School land declared needed at Cabrillo and Twenty-ninth Avenue
Resolution · 5 March 1923 ↗Buildings on Divisadero Street and six avenues must sit further back
Ordinance · 21 January 1924 ↗Michel & Pfeffer to build courts at Balboa High School
Resolution · 17 November 1930 ↗Buildings on Seventeenth Avenue and five others to sit further back
Ordinance · 7 April 1924 ↗Buildings on Twenty-fourth Avenue and four others to sit further back
Ordinance · 10 March 1924 ↗City takes over Pacheco Street between Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Avenues
Ordinance · 11 April 1949 ↗
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