Davidson Ave
23 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Davidson Ave, between 1910 and 1975, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1970s; often about streets closed for good, railroads and spur tracks, sewers.
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What keeps coming up
- Streets closed for good8Streets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.
- Railroads and spur tracks3Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Sewers2Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1970s9Burke, Custer and Davidson Avenues closed for good in India Basin · 1974
- 1950s3$16,264.98 voted for extra sewer work on Rankin Street · 1959
- 1940s6Widening of Islais Street and Selby Street made official · 1941
- 1920s1E. J. Treacy appeals his bill for paving Evans Avenue · 1928
- 1910s4Land dedicated to the city for Selby Street · 1917
The most notable decisions
Land dedicated to the city for Selby Street
Resolution · 23 April 1917 ↗Widening of Islais Street and Selby Street made official
Resolution · 22 December 1941 ↗$16,264.98 voted for extra sewer work on Rankin Street
Ordinance · 9 March 1959 ↗A 21-inch pipe project in Mendell Street between Davidson and Fairfax
Departmental work · 1952 ↗Burke, Custer and Davidson Avenues closed for good in India Basin
Resolution · 18 March 1974 ↗Streets closed for good in the India Basin industrial park
Resolution · 11 December 1972 ↗Christenson Lumber Company allowed to use Davidson Avenue
Resolution · 2 April 1951 ↗Christenson Lumber allowed to use Davidson Avenue between Phelps and Quint
Resolution · 2 May 1949 ↗Marine Corps given closed Custer and Davidson Avenues for supply work
Resolution · 13 August 1945 ↗J. P. Holland allowed a spur track on Quint Street
Ordinance · 21 October 1912 ↗
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