Esmeralda Ave
36 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Esmeralda Ave, between 1907 and 1970, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about paving and grading, sewers, land bought and sold.
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What keeps coming up
- Paving and grading7Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Sewers2Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Land bought and sold2Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1970s1Two-family housing sites approved at Lundy's Lane and Colerage Street · 1970
- 1960s5Peralta Avenue paving bill confirmed and sent to the contractor · 1960
- 1950s5$6,000 voted for radio telephones at Hetch Hetchy · 1952
- 1940s2City moves to take land for the Bernal Heights Boulevard · 1942
- 1920s10Sidewalks on Bonview Street fixed at seven feet wide · 1922
- 1910s12Street levels set on Folsom Street at Ripley Street · 1912
- 1900s1Henry L. Smith allowed blasting at Ripley Place and Esmeralda Avenue · 1907
The most notable decisions
Two-family housing sites approved at Lundy's Lane and Colerage Street
Resolution · passed · 29 June 1970 ↗$6,000 voted for radio telephones at Hetch Hetchy
Ordinance · 17 March 1952 ↗Sidewalks on Bonview Street fixed at seven feet wide
Ordinance · 18 September 1922 ↗Street levels set on Folsom Street at Ripley Street
Ordinance · 1 April 1912 ↗Street levels set on Folsom Street between Ripley and Esmeralda
Ordinance · 25 March 1912 ↗Holladay Avenue to be improved with $2,900 in city aid
Resolution · 14 January 1957 ↗Esmeralda Avenue to be widened between Bradford Street and Peralta Avenue
Resolution · 27 April 1953 ↗$2,600 finally passed for Esmeralda Avenue between Bernal Heights and Peralta
Ordinance · passed · 31 March 1952 ↗Prospect Avenue between Coso and Esmeralda to be paved
Ordinance · 28 October 1929 ↗Sidewalks to be built on Prospect Avenue and Downey Street
Ordinance · 29 April 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