Cortland Ave
84 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Cortland Ave, between 1908 and 2006, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about paving and grading, sewers, blasting permits.
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What keeps coming up
- Paving and grading12Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Sewers12Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Blasting permits7Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
- Railroads and spur tracks6Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Streetcars and transit5Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- PG&E and the utilities4The gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2000s4$6.1M adopted for SOMA and Cortland Avenue paving · 2006
- 1980s1513 and 515-17 Cortland Avenue bought for a neighborhood center · 1980
- 1970s1One-way streets adopted on Moultrie, Lobos and Caine Avenue · 1975
- 1950s2U-turns allowed at Sloat and Junipero Serra, Bayshore and Cortland · 1959
- 1930s9Sidewalks set at seven feet on Hilton, Perasto and Dickenson streets · 1932
- 1920s27Cecelia Ulfelder's San Bruno Avenue land accepted for Bay Shore Boulevard · 1926
- 1910s33$1,000 to plan another story on the Geary Street car barn · 1915
- 1900s7Basalt block paving ordered on San Bruno Avenue for $34,000 · 1909
The most notable decisions
513 and 515-17 Cortland Avenue bought for a neighborhood center
Resolution · 3 March 1980 ↗Cecelia Ulfelder's San Bruno Avenue land accepted for Bay Shore Boulevard
Resolution · 1 June 1926 ↗Ferdinand Reis grants a sewer right-of-way off San Bruno Avenue
Resolution · 17 April 1922 ↗Light industry allowed on the north side of Cortland Avenue
Ordinance · 23 March 1925 ↗$1,000 to plan another story on the Geary Street car barn
Resolution · 25 January 1915 ↗Another payment to United States Steel for City Hall steel
Resolution · 14 October 1913 ↗City sets aside $49,000 for Bakewell and Brown's City Hall work
Resolution · 19 May 1913 ↗$6.1M adopted for SOMA and Cortland Avenue paving
Resolution · passed · 7 March 2006 ↗One-way streets adopted on Moultrie, Lobos and Caine Avenue
Resolution · passed · 18 February 1975 ↗Sabina and Pierina Franza paid $3,500 for land near Bernal School
Resolution · 17 June 1929 ↗
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