45th Ave
63 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 45th Ave, between 1908 and 1955, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about sewers, fire stations, laundries.
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What keeps coming up
- Sewers8Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Fire stations5Engine houses and fire stations.
- Laundries2Laundries needed the Board's permission, and their neighbours sometimes objected.
- Paving and grading2Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Schools2School sites bought, built and repaired.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1950s3Setback variance on Forty-fifth Avenue proposed for disapproval · 1955
- 1940s3City takes over roadways on Anza, Wawona, Franconia and Peralta · 1949
- 1930s1Agatha Bauquier's old-age pension held up over her citizenship · 1936
- 1920s37Thomas H. Dempsey sells land for $1,700 to widen Sloat Boulevard · 1920
- 1910s7Cabrillo and Balboa streets to be paved and curbed · 1919
- 1900s12West End Primary School ordered built for $72,000 · 1909
The most notable decisions
West End Primary School ordered built for $72,000
Ordinance · 26 November 1909 ↗Chemical Engine House No. 12 ordered on Forty-fifth Avenue for $28,000
Ordinance · 6 December 1909 ↗Thomas H. Dempsey sells land for $1,700 to widen Sloat Boulevard
Resolution · 14 June 1920 ↗$1,450 set aside for plans for four new fire houses
Resolution · 26 July 1909 ↗Buildings on Forty-fifth to Forty-seventh avenues to sit further back
Ordinance · 29 August 1927 ↗Buildings on Forty-first through Forty-fifth avenues to sit further back
Ordinance · 29 August 1927 ↗Shops allowed at Balboa Street and Forty-fifth Avenue
Ordinance · 16 March 1925 ↗Board fixes how far back buildings must sit on four avenues
Ordinance · 23 July 1923 ↗Army Street sewer to be extended to Islais Creek
Ordinance · 2 October 1922 ↗City takes over roadways on Anza, Wawona, Franconia and Peralta
Ordinance · 27 December 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