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Circular Ave

120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Circular Ave, between 1912 and 1978, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about railroads and spur tracks, paving and grading, land and buildings split up.

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What keeps coming up

  • Railroads and spur tracks48Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Paving and grading6Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
  • Land and buildings split up6A lot split in two, or a building divided into flats that sell separately.
  • Sewers5Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
  • Protests and appeals4A protest recorded at a hearing, or an appeal against a decision — brought by neighbours and by applicants alike.
  • Freeways3The freeways, from the land bought for them to the fights about them.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1970s3
    Freeway off-ramp at Monterey Boulevard and Circular Avenue to be redirected · 1978
  2. 1930s1
    Three lots seized over Circular Avenue widening costs are redeemed · 1930
  3. 1920s74
    Money set aside for an addition to the Spring Valley School · 1921
  4. 1910s42
    City buys parcels struck off for the Circular Avenue widening · 1917

The most notable decisions

Where this comes from

The street holds more than 120 decisions; this page carries the 120 most notable. 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