47th Ave
84 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 47th Ave, between 1908 and 1984, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about railroads and spur tracks, sewers, taxis and garages.
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What keeps coming up
- Railroads and spur tracks4Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Sewers4Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Taxis and garages3Taxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.
- Keeping horses and cows2Until about 1930 the Board voted on whether you could keep animals at your address.
- The rules for this street changed2Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1980s1Night parking barred on 26th Street, angle parking on Moraga Street · 1984
- 1970s1Sidewalk permit fees waived at 800 Forty-seventh Avenue · 1976
- 1950s1Grove Street to be closed and covered by canvas in 1954 · 1953
- 1940s12Sewer easement taken from the Market Street Railway on Sloat Boulevard · 1942
- 1930s4Board overturns the refusal to allow shops on Forty-seventh Avenue · 1932
- 1920s39Land at Taraval and Forty-seventh offered for the streetcar loop · 1922
- 1910s7Pittsburg Valve Foundry paid for gate valves for fire water system · 1910
- 1900s19W. N. McCarthy tells the Board the Sunset District lacks roads · 1909
The most notable decisions
Sewer easement taken from the Market Street Railway on Sloat Boulevard
Resolution · 23 November 1942 ↗Land at Taraval and Forty-seventh offered for the streetcar loop
Resolution · 23 October 1922 ↗Pittsburg Valve Foundry paid for gate valves for fire water system
Resolution · 11 April 1910 ↗Board overturns the refusal to allow shops on Forty-seventh Avenue
Resolution · 1 February 1932 ↗Buildings on Forty-fifth to Forty-seventh avenues to sit further back
Ordinance · 29 August 1927 ↗Board fixes how far back buildings must sit on several streets
Ordinance · 23 July 1923 ↗Fulton Street work listed from 12th Avenue to the Great Highway
Departmental work · 1915 ↗Work listed on Fulton Street from 8th to 48th avenues
Departmental work · 1910 ↗The city takes over Ulloa Street between Forty-sixth and Forty-eighth
Ordinance · 27 November 1944 ↗Buildings on Cambridge Street and Forty-seventh Avenue must sit back
Ordinance · 1 March 1928 ↗
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