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Faxon Ave

29 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Faxon Ave, between 1909 and 2000, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about paving and grading, schools, land bought and sold.

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What keeps coming up

  • Paving and grading3Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
  • Schools3School sites bought, built and repaired.
  • Land bought and sold3Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.
  • 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.

  1. 2000s1
    Permit parking zones set for Grattan Street and Roosevelt Way · 2000
  2. 1990s1
    New stop signs proposed on Holloway Avenue and at Jones Street · 1993
  3. 1970s3
    Sidewalk openings banned on Market Street from Steuart to Waller · 1970
  4. 1940s1
    City takes over Thrift Street between Orizaba and Capitol Avenues · 1949
  5. 1930s2
    Assessment district set around Orizaba Avenue and Montana Street · 1931
  6. 1920s10
    Buildings on Divisadero Street and six avenues must sit further back · 1924
  7. 1910s4
    $4,430 for cooking and shop rooms at the Farragut School · 1919
  8. 1900s7
    John and Belle McCaffery paid $1,025 for the Lakeview School site · 1909

The most notable decisions

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