Crescent Ave
41 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Crescent Ave, between 1910 and 2006, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about sewers, streets closed for good, parking.
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What keeps coming up
- Sewers7Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Streets closed for good3Streets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.
- Parking3Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- Blasting permits2Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
- Railroads and spur tracks2Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- 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.
- 2000s2Sherman Street closed during school terms and Cleveland Street made one-way · 2006
- 1980s4Water Department takes old Crescent Avenue land for a parking area · 1989
- 1970s3Paving bill confirmed for Banks Street south of Crescent Avenue · 1973
- 1960s9Moultrie Street south of Crescent Avenue to get a sewer · 1969
- 1950s3City takes over new roadways on Crescent Avenue and Nevada Street · 1953
- 1940s4Beacon and Miguel Streets widened where they meet · 1943
- 1930s3Closure of Crescent Avenue, Weldon and Saul streets ordered · 1933
- 1920s4Sewer ordered on Folsom Street south of Crescent Avenue · 1922
- 1910s9Sewers to be laid in Roscoe Street south of Crescent Avenue · 1918
The most notable decisions
Sherman Street closed during school terms and Cleveland Street made one-way
Resolution · 13 June 2006 ↗Sewer ordered on Folsom Street south of Crescent Avenue
Ordinance · 6 November 1922 ↗City takes over new roadways on Crescent Avenue and Nevada Street
Resolution · 24 August 1953 ↗Paving bill confirmed for Banks Street south of Crescent Avenue
Motion · 2 April 1973 ↗Moultrie Street sewer work ordered with about $4,600 in city aid
Resolution · 26 January 1970 ↗Moultrie Street south of Crescent Avenue to get a sewer
Ordinance · 7 April 1969 ↗Sewers ordered for Moultrie Street south of Crescent Avenue
Ordinance · 4 November 1968 ↗Sewers to be built on Moultrie Street south of Crescent Avenue
Ordinance · 28 October 1968 ↗Anderson Street to be improved with about $9,500 in city aid
Ordinance · 7 February 1966 ↗Ellsworth Street improved with about $2,000 of city aid
Resolution · 26 September 1955 ↗
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