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College Ave

13 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about College Ave, between 1910 and 1981, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1980s; often about railroads and spur tracks, paving and grading.

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What keeps coming up

  • Railroads and spur tracks3Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Paving and grading2Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1980s4
    Houses allowed on College Avenue west of Mission Street · 1980
  2. 1960s2
    St. Mary's College allowed a bell tower replica on College Avenue · 1962
  3. 1920s3
    Jean and Lucie Plat sell land for the Bernal Cut, $10,000 · 1927
  4. 1910s4
    Street levels to change on Mission Street and College Avenue · 1913

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