Burnett Ave
89 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Burnett Ave, between 1915 and 2018, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about streets closed for good, the rules for this street changed, railroads and spur tracks.
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What keeps coming up
- Streets closed for good12Streets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.
- The rules for this street changed5Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.
- Railroads and spur tracks3Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Paving and grading3Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Fire stations3Engine houses and fire stations.
- Police stations3Police stations and the sites bought for them.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2010s4Burnett Avenue parcels sold for $1.5M to settle a lawsuit · 2018
- 1990s1Findings adopted for the 445 Burnett Avenue permit · 1990
- 1980s17Burnett Avenue at Dixie Alley rezoned from public land to houses · 1985
- 1970s8Walti air rights swapped to protect the view from Burnett Avenue · 1973
- 1960s8$900,000 set aside for deteriorated sewers and $109,000 for refugees · 1968
- 1950s15Land on Twin Peaks Boulevard traded for land on Burnett Avenue · 1952
- 1940s9Effort urged to keep the Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard open · 1949
- 1930s7Block near Twin Peaks Boulevard to be limited to single homes · 1938
- 1920s2City to take land where Burnett Avenue meets Portola drive · 1929
- 1910s18Whitney Engineering to supply a $24,100 locomotive for Hetch Hetchy · 1918
The most notable decisions
Block near Twin Peaks Boulevard to be limited to single homes
Ordinance · 13 June 1938 ↗Effort urged to keep the Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard open
Ordinance · 5 December 1949 ↗Block between Army Street and Burnett Avenue limited to single-family homes
Ordinance · 31 August 1942 ↗Whitney Engineering to supply a $24,100 locomotive for Hetch Hetchy
Resolution · 18 March 1918 ↗Walti air rights swapped to protect the view from Burnett Avenue
Ordinance · 2 January 1973 ↗$900,000 set aside for deteriorated sewers and $109,000 for refugees
Ordinance · 11 March 1968 ↗City buys Walti air rights to protect the Burnett Avenue view
Ordinance · 26 December 1972 ↗Burnett Avenue at Dixie Alley rezoned from public land to houses
Ordinance · 29 April 1985 ↗Block at Burnett and Corbett avenues restricted to single houses
Ordinance · 13 June 1938 ↗Block at La Place Avenue and Twenty-sixth Street restricted to houses
Ordinance · 13 June 1938 ↗
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