Capitol Ave
58 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Capitol Ave, between 1909 and 2013, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about parks and playgrounds, railroads and spur tracks, schools.
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What keeps coming up
- Parks and playgrounds12Playgrounds and recreation grounds.
- Railroads and spur tracks11Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Schools8School sites bought, built and repaired.
- Sewers7Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Land bought and sold5Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.
- Parking3Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2010s2Move to refuse the 1 Capitol Avenue subdivision map · 2013
- 1990s2New stop signs adopted at Capitol, Foote and Berkshire crossings · 1994
- 1980s1Sewer clean-up costs at 374 Capitol Avenue charged to the property · 1985
- 1970s2Lobos Street closed during earthquake work at Sheridan School · 1975
- 1960s1Getz Street dropped, Dwight Street and Capitol Avenue added · 1969
- 1950s3Stop signs adopted at Eureka and Eighteenth and Capitol and Holloway · 1959
- 1940s3City takes over Thrift Street between Orizaba and Capitol Avenues · 1949
- 1930s1Robert Hale freed of an old water pipe easement for $5 · 1938
- 1920s25$12,200 paid to the Lanahans for playground land on Minerva Street · 1927
- 1910s7$490 set aside for a sewer at Glen Park School · 1916
- 1900s11Edward Bauer paid for school land on Capitol Avenue · 1909
The most notable decisions
$12,200 paid to the Lanahans for playground land on Minerva Street
Resolution · 10 January 1927 ↗C. Boccone paid for Montana Street land for Ocean View Playground
Resolution · 18 May 1925 ↗Jesse Doherty paid for Minerva Street land for Ocean View Playground
Resolution · 13 April 1925 ↗$2,925 paid to the Lorentzens for Ocean View Playground land
Resolution · 22 October 1923 ↗Edward Bauer paid for school land on Capitol Avenue
Resolution · 29 November 1909 ↗City goes to court for Mission High and Sheridan School land
Resolution · 21 June 1909 ↗City Attorney to condemn land for Sheridan and Holly Park schools
Resolution · 17 May 1909 ↗William S. Bentham paid $3,450 for the Sheridan Primary School site
Resolution · 10 May 1909 ↗William S. Bentham's land bought for the Sheridan Primary School
Resolution · 10 May 1909 ↗Spaulding and Neff paid $11,512.50 for the Lakeview School site
Resolution · 3 May 1909 ↗
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