Fairfax Ave
72 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Fairfax Ave, between 1913 and 2024, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about railroads and spur tracks, streets closed for good, paving and grading.
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What keeps coming up
- Railroads and spur tracks9Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Streets closed for good8Streets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.
- Paving and grading7Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Blasting permits3Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
- Sewers3Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Fire stations3Engine houses and fire stations.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2020s5New Hunters View street to be named Memory Lane · 2024
- 2000s4Portions of Fairfax Avenue and West Point Road to close · 2009
- 1980s4Galvez and Fairfax Avenues closed in a $277,500 shoreline park swap · 1986
- 1970s8Mendell Street lots near Fairfax Avenue rezoned, finally passed · 1973
- 1960s3Fairfax Avenue improvement taken back and shelved · 1967
- 1950s6Tunnel runs 3,700 feet from Palou and Griffiths to Keith Street · 1952
- 1940s2Streets to be closed for a federal housing project · 1943
- 1930s1Pig keeping to be banned outside a strip near Arthur Avenue · 1932
- 1920s6P. M. Schoenfeld allowed a cabinet shop on Fairfax Avenue · 1923
- 1910s33Land seizure dropped for the Hunters Point streetcar extension · 1919
The most notable decisions
Pig keeping to be banned outside a strip near Arthur Avenue
Ordinance · 11 April 1932 ↗Land seizure dropped for the Hunters Point streetcar extension
Resolution · 25 August 1919 ↗Flooded district around Railroad and Jerrold avenues to be drained
Resolution · 10 January 1916 ↗City swaps land with Troy Investment Company for Hunters Point Boulevard
Resolution · 19 November 1917 ↗$1,500 to buy J. G. Walker land for Hunter's Point Boulevard
Resolution · 12 March 1917 ↗J. G. Walker Company's land offer for Hunter's Point Boulevard accepted
Resolution · 5 March 1917 ↗Mary Ward and Rose Ryan get $1,000 for Hunters Point land
Resolution · 13 February 1917 ↗John A. Weston sells land for Hunters Point Boulevard, $1,500
Resolution · 22 January 1917 ↗Jessie Wickham and others paid $1,500 for Hunters Point Boulevard land
Resolution · 22 January 1917 ↗Mendell Street lots near Fairfax Avenue rezoned, finally passed
Ordinance · passed · 30 July 1973 ↗
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