Highland Ave
35 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Highland Ave, between 1909 and 2002, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1930s; often about schools, land bought and sold, the rules for this street changed.
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What keeps coming up
- Schools7School sites bought, built and repaired.
- Land bought and sold4Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.
- The rules for this street changed2Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2000s2Federal money taken to rebuild the San Jose Avenue hillside · 2001
- 1990s5Eighteen-month ban on new Mission massage parlors proposed · 1998
- 1970s3$144,000 for the Highland Avenue bridge and $1.35M for airport expansion · 1973
- 1930s22$6,750 for the Franke land on Highland Avenue for a school · 1931
- 1920s1
- 1900s2City Attorney to condemn land for Sheridan and Holly Park schools · 1909
The most notable decisions
$144,000 for the Highland Avenue bridge and $1.35M for airport expansion
Ordinance · 2 January 1973 ↗$6,750 for the Franke land on Highland Avenue for a school
Resolution · 6 July 1931 ↗$8,500 to Archie McG. Shepherd for school land on Highland Avenue
Resolution · 8 December 1930 ↗Raffaele Cantacessi's Highland Avenue land bought for $6,000 for a school
Resolution · 3 November 1930 ↗Sophie Rickman's Highland Avenue land bought for $7,000 for a school
Resolution · 3 November 1930 ↗Josephine Sanchez's land on Patton Street bought for a school
Resolution · 3 November 1930 ↗City Attorney to condemn land for Sheridan and Holly Park schools
Resolution · 17 May 1909 ↗Housing Authority buys the Holly Park block for $62,140
Ordinance · 17 April 1939 ↗Housing Authority buys fire department land near Holly Park for $6,250
Ordinance · 24 July 1939 ↗Board votes $1.4M for airport plans and Highland Avenue bridge repairs
Ordinance · 26 December 1972 ↗
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