Grafton Ave
34 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Grafton Ave, between 1915 and 2001, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about sewers, parking, paving and grading.
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What keeps coming up
- Sewers4Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Parking3Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- Paving and grading2Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Protests and appeals2A protest recorded at a hearing, or an appeal against a decision — brought by neighbours and by applicants alike.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2000s2All-way stops proposed at Hampshire, Grafton and Laidley Streets · 2001
- 1960s2Angle parking allowed on Ashton Avenue south of Grafton Avenue · 1961
- 1930s7Street work ordered for Grafton Avenue and Rankin Street · 1931
- 1920s20Jessie F. Johnson sells land for Mt. Vernon Avenue for $1,750 · 1925
- 1910s3Street levels set on Ashton Avenue between Grafton and Lakeview avenues · 1915
The most notable decisions
Jessie F. Johnson sells land for Mt. Vernon Avenue for $1,750
Resolution · 28 December 1925 ↗City land opened as public streets, named Garfield Street and Grafton Avenue
Resolution · 15 July 1929 ↗Buildings on Lincoln Way and Clifford Terrace may be set back
Resolution · 13 July 1925 ↗City sets how far back buildings must sit on Lincoln Way
Ordinance · 13 July 1925 ↗City sets how far back buildings must sit on Clifford Terrace
Ordinance · 6 July 1925 ↗Buildings on Miramar and Grafton avenues may be set back
Resolution · 22 June 1925 ↗City sets how far back buildings must sit on Miramar Avenue
Ordinance · 22 June 1925 ↗Buildings on Lee Avenue must sit ten feet back
Ordinance · 8 June 1925 ↗Street work ordered for Grafton Avenue and Rankin Street
Ordinance · 28 September 1931 ↗Sand removal and bulkhead work on Thirty-second Avenue repealed
Ordinance · 1 December 1930 ↗
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