36th Ave
96 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 36th Ave, between 1906 and 1990, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about paving and grading, schools, railroads and spur tracks.
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What keeps coming up
- Paving and grading5Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Schools5School sites bought, built and repaired.
- Railroads and spur tracks4Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- PG&E and the utilities4The gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.
- Land bought and sold3Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.
- Sewers2Sewers 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.
- 1990s1Tow-away zone set on Quintara Street near Sunset Boulevard · 1990
- 1980s1Thirty-sixth Avenue closed for a Filipino Fiesta street fair · 1988
- 1970s1Thirty-sixth Avenue asked to close as a Lafayette School playground · 1972
- 1960s2Corner of Geary Boulevard and Thirty-sixth Avenue limited to single houses · 1960
- 1950s2Thirty-sixth Avenue closed for the Parkside Methodist Church vacation school · 1958
- 1940s6City takes over the crossing of Thirty-sixth Avenue and Ortega Street · 1941
- 1930s6City to trade Lake Merced land with Spring Valley Company · 1933
- 1920s53City to take Pine Lake Park blocks near Wawona and Yerba · 1928
- 1910s12Geary Street crossings at Thirty-third and Thirty-fifth avenues to be paved · 1914
- 1900s12Bay View Land Company's deed opens three new avenues south · 1908
The most notable decisions
City to take Pine Lake Park blocks near Wawona and Yerba
Resolution · 23 January 1928 ↗Anita Land Company's corner lot bought for the Anza School
Resolution · 4 August 1924 ↗Anita Land Company's Anza Street land bought for a school
Resolution · 21 July 1924 ↗Nat Schmulowitz sells Thirty-sixth Avenue land for a school, $3,500
Resolution · 16 June 1924 ↗J. W. Edmonds sells Thirty-sixth Avenue land for a school, $1,750
Resolution · 16 June 1924 ↗City to trade Lake Merced land with Spring Valley Company
Ordinance · 20 March 1933 ↗Buildings on five avenues, including Thirty-first Avenue, must sit further back
Ordinance · 21 January 1924 ↗Buildings on Guerrero Street and five avenues must sit further back
Ordinance · 7 January 1924 ↗Corner of Geary Boulevard and Thirty-sixth Avenue limited to single houses
Ordinance · 15 August 1960 ↗Thirty-sixth Avenue near Geary Street limited to single-family homes
Ordinance · 26 January 1925 ↗
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