34th Ave
101 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 34th Ave, between 1907 and 1987, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about paving and grading, sewers, keeping horses and cows.
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What keeps coming up
- Paving and grading4Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Sewers4Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Keeping horses and cows3Until about 1930 the Board voted on whether you could keep animals at your address.
- Railroads and spur tracks3Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Clinics and hospitals3Clinics, health centres and hospitals.
- Land and buildings split up3A lot split in two, or a building divided into flats that sell separately.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1980s10New restaurants and bars barred on Clement Street for twelve months · 1986
- 1970s1Ulloa Street closed between Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Avenues in June · 1972
- 1960s3U-turns allowed on Sloat Boulevard at Thirty-fourth Avenue · 1967
- 1940s4City takes over Quintara Street between Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Avenues · 1949
- 1930s15Shops allowed at Geary Street and Thirty-fourth Avenue · 1931
- 1920s39Buildings on Divisadero Street and six avenues must sit further back · 1924
- 1910s20$10,000 to Bay View Land Company for the school lot · 1910
- 1900s9Offers sought for land for the Washington Irving and Harrison schools · 1909
The most notable decisions
$10,000 to Bay View Land Company for the school lot
Resolution · 14 February 1910 ↗City buys land for the Harrison Primary School for $10,000
Resolution · 24 January 1910 ↗New restaurants and bars barred on Clement Street for twelve months
Ordinance · 28 April 1986 ↗New restaurants and bars barred on Clement Street for a year
Ordinance · 9 November 1981 ↗Offers sought for land for the Washington Irving and Harrison schools
Resolution · proposed · 27 December 1909 ↗Buildings on Divisadero Street and six avenues must sit further back
Ordinance · 21 January 1924 ↗City accepts a sewer right of way at Thirty-fourth Avenue
Ordinance · 13 February 1912 ↗Shops allowed at Geary Street and Thirty-fourth Avenue
Resolution · 2 February 1931 ↗Buildings on Thirty-first through Thirty-fourth avenues to sit further back
Ordinance · 29 August 1927 ↗Buildings on Twenty-fourth Avenue and four others to sit further back
Ordinance · 10 March 1924 ↗
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