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Clarendon Ave

87 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Clarendon Ave, between 1908 and 2016, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about paving and grading, parking, clinics and hospitals.

Open Clarendon Ave on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

  • Paving and grading6Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
  • Parking5Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
  • Clinics and hospitals5Clinics, health centres and hospitals.
  • PG&E and the utilities5The gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.
  • Railroads and spur tracks4Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Fire stations3Engine houses and fire stations.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2010s1
    Midtown Terrace exemption from in-law flat rules struck from the ordinance · 2016
  2. 2000s6
    Sunset clause to be dropped from a traffic code section · 2001
  3. 1990s1
    Stop sign at Twin Peaks Boulevard and Clarendon Avenue refused · 1990
  4. 1980s2
    $55,000 moved to build a retaining wall on Clarendon Avenue · 1983
  5. 1970s3
    Land on Clarendon Avenue rezoned for single-family houses · 1972
  6. 1960s3
    City takes over the new roadway on Clarendon Avenue · 1960
  7. 1950s15
    Deal with the state on quarter-cent gas tax money approved · 1951
  8. 1940s16
    Clarendon Avenue widened and opened through the Sutro Forest tract · 1946
  9. 1930s9
    Five playgrounds, including Julius Kahn and Potrero Hill, to be improved · 1930
  10. 1910s20
    Whitney Engineering to supply a $24,100 locomotive for Hetch Hetchy · 1918
  11. 1900s11
    E. H. Gottschalk's $3,000 lot accepted for an Ashbury Heights firehouse · 1908

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