33rd Ave
81 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 33rd Ave, between 1908 and 1962, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about railroads and spur tracks, streetcars and transit, paving and grading.
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What keeps coming up
- Railroads and spur tracks9Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Streetcars and transit7Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- Paving and grading7Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Sewers3Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- PG&E and the utilities2The gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1960s1Herbst Noriega Properties allowed a barricade on Thirty-Third Avenue · 1962
- 1950s2Clement Street sidewalks set at fifteen feet near Thirty-second Avenue · 1951
- 1940s4Land near Wawona Street and Crestlake Drive to be acquired · 1945
- 1930s4Ormand H. Nelson allowed a filling station at Thirty-third and Geary · 1931
- 1920s47City joins a $3,000 study of the Peninsula's water supply · 1926
- 1910s21City to use United Railroads' Taraval Street tracks and buy current · 1918
- 1900s2Street levels reset on Thirty-third Avenue and nearby lettered streets · 1908
The most notable decisions
City to use United Railroads' Taraval Street tracks and buy current
Ordinance · 12 November 1918 ↗City joins a $3,000 study of the Peninsula's water supply
Resolution · 10 May 1926 ↗Mathewson Motor buses to trade transfers with the Geary Street Railway
Resolution · 15 March 1915 ↗Buildings on five avenues, including Thirty-first Avenue, must sit further back
Ordinance · 21 January 1924 ↗Standard Motor Truck Company gets $28,551.68 for street car trucks
Resolution · 23 October 1922 ↗Land near Wawona Street and Crestlake Drive to be acquired
Resolution · 5 November 1945 ↗Buildings on Thirty-first through Thirty-fourth avenues to sit further back
Ordinance · 29 August 1927 ↗Board fixes how far back buildings must sit on four avenues
Ordinance · 23 July 1923 ↗Geary Street crossings at Thirty-third and Thirty-fifth avenues to be paved
Ordinance · 2 February 1914 ↗Asphalt surface laid on the Geary Street and Tenth Avenue right-of-way
Departmental work · 1910 ↗
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