Donner Ave
29 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Donner Ave, between 1920 and 2021, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about railroads and spur tracks.
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What keeps coming up
- Railroads and spur tracks2Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2020s4Donner Avenue proposed for renaming to Charlie Way · 2021
- 1990s1
- 1970s5Summer Youth Program leases space at 1616 Donner Avenue · 1973
- 1960s1Keith Street closed for good between Egbert and Donner Avenues · 1964
- 1950s1Left turns allowed again at Third Street and Donner Avenue · 1957
- 1940s2Pacific Electric Manufacturing allowed a fence across Donner Avenue at Keith · 1942
- 1930s2Authority taken to act on Donner Avenue · 1930
- 1920s13Blocks between Donner and Egbert avenues opened to light industry · 1928
The most notable decisions
Blocks between Donner and Egbert avenues opened to light industry
Ordinance · 1 October 1928 ↗Blocks between Jackson and Sacramento streets opened to two-family housing
Ordinance · 1 October 1928 ↗Light industry allowed in the block at Donner and Jennings
Ordinance · 6 September 1928 ↗Summer Youth Program leases space at 1616 Donner Avenue
Resolution · 11 June 1973 ↗City proposes buying 200 acres for recreation near Railroad Avenue
Resolution · 27 December 1920 ↗Battista Boeto and neighbors sell land to open Bay Shore Boulevard
Resolution · 23 January 1928 ↗Land near Egbert and Donner Avenues rezoned from housing to industry
Ordinance · 21 March 1977 ↗Authority taken to act on Donner Avenue
Resolution · 24 November 1930 ↗Keith Street closed for good between Egbert and Donner Avenues
Ordinance · 27 July 1964 ↗Left turns allowed again at Third Street and Donner Avenue
Resolution · 2 December 1957 ↗
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