Grand View Ave
62 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Grand View Ave, between 1920 and 1992, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about railroads and spur tracks, land bought and sold, sewers.
Open Grand View Ave on the map, street by street →
What keeps coming up
- Railroads and spur tracks4Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Land bought and sold4Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.
- Sewers3Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Schools3School sites bought, built and repaired.
- Parks and playgrounds3Playgrounds and recreation grounds.
- Wires put underground2Districts where overhead wires had to come down.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1990s1Tow-away zone adopted on the south side of Clipper Street · 1992
- 1970s2Stop signs adopted at Grand View Avenue and 24th Street · 1979
- 1960s3Wires to go underground around Pennsylvania, Mariposa and Illinois Streets · 1967
- 1950s1An adoption vote with no subject on this page · 1956
- 1940s5Part of Grand View Avenue ordered closed · 1941
- 1930s13$5,000 for Block 6294 land needed for McLaren Park · 1931
- 1920s37$12,200 paid to the Lanahans for playground land on Minerva Street · 1927
The most notable decisions
$5,000 for Block 6294 land needed for McLaren Park
Resolution · 13 July 1931 ↗$12,200 paid to the Lanahans for playground land on Minerva Street
Resolution · 10 January 1927 ↗Industrial buildings near The Embarcadero and Bay Street may be altered
Ordinance · 7 December 1925 ↗Frederick A. Teasland gives land to widen Market Street
Resolution · 27 June 1921 ↗Southern Pacific hands over land for Bay Shore Boulevard
Resolution · 6 January 1930 ↗Wunsch land bought for $4,375 to widen Grand View Avenue
Resolution · 1 August 1927 ↗Ellen F. Monahan sells land to widen Grand View Avenue, $20
Resolution · 7 March 1927 ↗Alma Dewar paid $50 for land to widen Grand View Avenue
Resolution · 24 January 1927 ↗$600 paid for land to widen Grand View Avenue
Resolution · 10 January 1927 ↗Quirk estate paid $600 for land to widen Grand View Avenue
Resolution · 20 December 1926 ↗
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