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Carroll Ave

86 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Carroll Ave, between 1921 and 2026, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about railroads and spur tracks, sewers, street lights.

Open Carroll Ave on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

  • Railroads and spur tracks30Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Sewers10Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
  • Street lights5Lighting a street, block by block.
  • Parking4Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
  • Land bought and sold4Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.
  • Parks and playgrounds2Playgrounds and recreation grounds.

Decade by decade

Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.

  1. 2020s8
    Fire Department to buy 1236 Carroll Avenue from Prologis for $38.5M · 2022
  2. 2000s1
    $413,323 for emergency equipment sent to committee · 2004
  3. 1980s4
    Game-day parking rules set by crowd size on Jamestown Avenue · 1982
  4. 1960s3
    $400 in city money toward improving Ingalls Street · 1964
  5. 1950s8
    Jennings Street sidewalks finally cut to seven feet · 1958
  6. 1940s6
    City takes over Keith Street between Armstrong and Carroll Avenues · 1949
  7. 1930s25
    Sidewalk width rule for San Carlos Street repealed · 1936
  8. 1920s31
    A claim allowed for land required for the Le Conte School · 1924

The most notable decisions

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