7th Ave
99 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 7th Ave, between 1906 and 2005, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about schools, sewers, clinics and hospitals.
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What keeps coming up
- Schools12School sites bought, built and repaired.
- Sewers11Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Clinics and hospitals9Clinics, health centres and hospitals.
- Paving and grading6Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Churches5Congregations, and the buildings they asked the city about.
- The rules for this street changed5Rezonings, 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.
- 2000s1Commendation proposed for the 2005 Loveparade in San Francisco · 2005
- 1990s1Land at Seventh Avenue and Warren Drive offered to the schools · 1996
- 1980s5Height limit set at Seventh Avenue and Moraga Street · 1985
- 1970s2Amendment moved to take back the Seventh Avenue widening money · 1972
- 1960s5Low-rent housing for the elderly at Laguna Honda put off · 1962
- 1950s4$250,000 for the Crosstown Freeway put off · 1954
- 1940s2$1,962.50 voted for baseball backstops at the Golden Gate Park field · 1944
- 1930s15Two new wards ordered at the Laguna Honda Home · 1930
- 1920s17Nathaniel Thompson paid $3,250 for school land on Seventh Avenue · 1925
- 1910s23Storrie & Co. paid $2,823.87 for Twin Peaks Tunnel work · 1917
- 1900s24Robert W. Bennett sells Frank McCoppin School land for $7,500 · 1909
The most notable decisions
Storrie & Co. paid $2,823.87 for Twin Peaks Tunnel work
Resolution · 24 September 1917 ↗Nathaniel Thompson paid $3,250 for school land on Seventh Avenue
Resolution · 22 June 1925 ↗Robert W. Bennett sells Frank McCoppin School land for $7,500
Resolution · 26 April 1909 ↗City Attorney to condemn John J. Roddy's land for the hospital
Resolution · 10 April 1909 ↗Engine House No. 37 to be built at Vermont and Twenty-fifth
Resolution · 25 June 1917 ↗Two new wards ordered at the Laguna Honda Home
Ordinance · 15 July 1930 ↗Elizabeth Wyche Coit's $100,000 to build a driveway around Lake Merced
Resolution · 19 January 1931 ↗Gas tax money agreed for Ocean Avenue and Islais Creek bridge
Resolution · 28 September 1936 ↗Low-rent housing for the elderly at Laguna Honda put off
Ordinance · 20 August 1962 ↗$1,899 set aside for two portable buildings at Cleveland School
Resolution · 5 November 1917 ↗
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