Evans Ave
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Evans Ave, between 1912 and 2008, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about paving and grading, railroads and spur tracks, clinics and hospitals.
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What keeps coming up
- Paving and grading11Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Railroads and spur tracks10Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Clinics and hospitals7Clinics, health centres and hospitals.
- PG&E and the utilities6The gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.
- Parking5Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- Blasting permits4Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2000s3New lease taken at 1325A Evans Avenue for the water utility · 2008
- 1990s8Bigger mental health lease on Evans Avenue recommended for approval · 1999
- 1980s3Sidewalk width changed on Third Street south of Evans Avenue · 1989
- 1970s3Quint Street to be rebuilt between Jerrold and Evans Avenues · 1973
- 1960s3Freeway route between Palou and Evans Avenues to be struck out · 1966
- 1940s8Charter amendments ratified at the May election are filed · 1944
- 1930s4$18,000 set aside for grading the Sunset Boulevard · 1930
- 1920s40International Diamond Drill gets $18,884 for Hetch Hetchy core borings · 1926
- 1910s48Road to Hunter's Point declared city policy · 1916
The most notable decisions
Freeway route between Palou and Evans Avenues to be struck out
Ordinance · 6 September 1966 ↗Road to Hunter's Point declared city policy
Resolution · 27 March 1916 ↗$250,000 asked to extend the Municipal Railway to Hunters Point
Resolution · 21 March 1918 ↗Charter amendments ratified at the May election are filed
Resolution · 16 June 1944 ↗$15,000 more voted for building the Evans Avenue Bridge
Ordinance · 28 April 1947 ↗$585,900 agreed with the state for major street work this year
Ordinance · 12 August 1940 ↗Bridge approved on Evans Avenue at Selby Street
Ordinance · passed · 15 January 1917 ↗Bridge to be built on Evans Avenue at Selby Street
Ordinance · 8 January 1917 ↗International Diamond Drill gets $18,884 for Hetch Hetchy core borings
Resolution · 23 February 1926 ↗Evans Avenue and Army Street ordered opened and widened
Resolution · 25 November 1918 ↗
Where this comes from
The street holds more than 120 decisions; this page carries the 120 most notable. 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