Central Ave
34 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Central Ave, between 1909 and 2004, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about pg&e and the utilities, cemeteries and funerals, sewers.
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What keeps coming up
- PG&E and the utilities5The gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.
- Cemeteries and funerals4Burial and the trades around it, at their heaviest as the city closed its cemeteries.
- Sewers3Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Oil tanks and boilers2Fuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.
- Parking2Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- Environmental review2Nothing before the 1970s, then permanent: the review law arriving and staying.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2000s2Haight Street Walk of Fame plaques approved from Central to Stanyan · 2004
- 1990s3$164,355 for emergency sewer replacement on Central Avenue · 1998
- 1980s3Haight Street rezoned for shops with homes above · 1980
- 1970s1Supervisor Kopp asks the police about the Page Street closing · 1978
- 1960s6One-way running set on Haight, Waller and Central Avenue. · 1967
- 1930s4Archbishop grants a water main easement through Holy Cross Cemetery · 1937
- 1920s8Margaret Cashman paid $8,500 for Waller Street school land · 1924
- 1910s5Easterly half of Buena Vista Avenue to be paved · 1915
- 1900s2City to take over Turk Street roadway between Baker and Masonic · 1909
The most notable decisions
Margaret Cashman paid $8,500 for Waller Street school land
Resolution · 14 July 1924 ↗Mary E. Mackinnon paid $8,300 for Waller Street school land
Resolution · 16 June 1924 ↗Waller Street land to be taken for a school
Resolution · 7 April 1924 ↗Mercantile Trust paid $7,800 for Dudley Stone School land on Waller
Resolution · 27 March 1922 ↗Mercantile Trust paid $7,800 for Dudley Stone School land
Resolution · 20 March 1922 ↗Haight Street rezoned for shops with homes above
Ordinance · 2 June 1980 ↗Archbishop grants a water main easement through Holy Cross Cemetery
Resolution · 8 February 1937 ↗Aqueduct land at Newark bought from Thompson and Quinn for $250
Resolution · 27 August 1923 ↗One-way running set on Haight, Waller and Central Avenue.
Resolution · 25 September 1967 ↗One-way changes made on Ross Alley and Spofford Street
Resolution · 18 September 1967 ↗
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