8th Ave
102 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about 8th Ave, between 1906 and 1992, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about parking, railroads and spur tracks, paving and grading.
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What keeps coming up
- Parking8Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- Railroads and spur tracks5Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Paving and grading4Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Sewers3Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Protests and appeals3A protest recorded at a hearing, or an appeal against a decision — brought by neighbours and by applicants alike.
- Wires put underground2Districts where overhead wires had to come down.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1990s7Power lines to go underground on Eighth Avenue in the Sunset · 1992
- 1980s3Food concession lease approved for Golden Gate Park and Marina Green · 1980
- 1960s11$11,000 paid to Linda Klein for the Eighth Avenue parking site · 1965
- 1950s3Sylvia Hanson and Dilys Evans buy Eighth Avenue land for $6,200 · 1953
- 1940s2Construction started on Cornwall Street from 8th Avenue to Arguello Boulevard · 1949
- 1930s6$28,900 for street widening with Works Progress Administration crews · 1939
- 1920s37Eighth Avenue between Geary and Clement streets opened to shops · 1922
- 1910s10City to take over Geary Street roadway between Seventh and Eighth · 1912
- 1900s23Street work ordered on Eighth Avenue · 1909
The most notable decisions
Eighth Avenue between Geary and Clement streets opened to shops
Ordinance · 30 January 1922 ↗Eighth Avenue between Geary and Clement Streets to allow shops
Ordinance · 23 January 1922 ↗Food concession lease approved for Golden Gate Park and Marina Green
Ordinance · passed · 15 September 1980 ↗$11,000 paid to Linda Klein for the Eighth Avenue parking site
Resolution · 26 July 1965 ↗Land bought for the Clement and Eighth Avenue parking site
Resolution · 26 October 1964 ↗$34,000 paid to the Roman Catholic Archbishop for parking land
Resolution · 10 August 1964 ↗$48,000 paid to Emily Douglas and Marion Logan for parking land
Resolution · 11 May 1964 ↗Eben and Maud Locke sell land for the Hetch Hetchy aqueduct
Resolution · 23 October 1922 ↗Eighth Avenue substation lot rezoned for shops under agreed conditions
Ordinance · 24 December 1923 ↗Eighth Avenue lot near Geary Street to be rezoned for shops
Ordinance · 26 November 1923 ↗
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