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5th Ave

63 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 5th Ave, between 1907 and 2000, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1900s; often about railroads and spur tracks, keeping horses and cows, clinics and hospitals.

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What keeps coming up

  • Railroads and spur tracks7Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Keeping horses and cows6Until about 1930 the Board voted on whether you could keep animals at your address.
  • Clinics and hospitals5Clinics, health centres and hospitals.
  • Oil tanks and boilers4Fuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.
  • Environmental review4Nothing before the 1970s, then permanent: the review law arriving and staying.
  • Blasting permits3Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.

Decade by decade

Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.

  1. 2000s6
    Zoning to change between Fifth and Nineteenth Avenues at Kirkham Street · 2000
  2. 1960s1
    Rule adopted on Green Street west of Sansome Street · 1960
  3. 1950s3
    Kirkham Street improvement ordered with about $3,600 in city aid · 1952
  4. 1940s1
    City takes over the new roadway on Quintara Street · 1941
  5. 1930s1
    Marie Marestin allowed a laundry on Fifth Avenue · 1930
  6. 1920s4
    Buildings on Fifth Avenue and three others to sit further back · 1924
  7. 1910s21
    Connecticut Street extended south of Army Street as a public street · 1918
  8. 1900s26
    Geary Street railway ordered to resume service or lose its license · 1907

The most notable decisions

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