Brighton Ave
23 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Brighton Ave, between 1919 and 2013, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about streetcars and transit, sewers, pg&e and the utilities.
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What keeps coming up
- Streetcars and transit5Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- Sewers4Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- PG&E and the utilities4The gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.
- Taxis and garages2Taxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.
- Clinics and hospitals2Clinics, health centres and hospitals.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
The most notable decisions
$522.34 more for overhead wires on the Taraval Street line
Resolution · 14 October 1919 ↗$10,500 first payment for the Laguna Honda station elevator
Resolution · 16 June 1919 ↗$3,033.77 paid to Geo. H. Tay for Hetch Hetchy steel pipe
Resolution · 9 June 1919 ↗$7,500 set aside for wooden ties for the Municipal Railways
Resolution · 14 April 1919 ↗Brighton and Lakeview avenues to be paved, curbed and sewered
Ordinance · 3 March 1930 ↗Improvement ordered at the corner of Brighton and Lakeview avenues
Ordinance · 9 December 1929 ↗Order to improve the Brighton and Lakeview avenues corner repealed
Ordinance · 9 December 1929 ↗Order to improve Brighton and Lakeview Avenues repealed
Ordinance · 2 December 1929 ↗Street work ordered at Brighton and Lakeview Avenues
Ordinance · 2 December 1929 ↗Brighton Avenue to be curbed and paved, billed in ten installments
Ordinance · 20 April 1925 ↗
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