Holladay Ave
43 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Holladay Ave, between 1909 and 1978, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about blasting permits, railroads and spur tracks, land bought and sold.
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What keeps coming up
- Blasting permits4Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
- 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.
- Paving and grading2Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1970s1Questions asked on heavy construction traffic over Mullen and Costa Streets · 1978
- 1950s2City takes over Marvel Court, Felton Street and four more streets · 1958
- 1940s1Taxes cancelled on Holladay Avenue land taken for a highway · 1947
- 1930s14City trades land with Loretta White to widen Army Street · 1933
- 1920s15Plans ordered for Hetch Hetchy aqueduct tunnels and pipe lines · 1928
- 1910s7John Lydon to be paid $550 for land on Army Street · 1918
- 1900s3Ocean Shore Railway allowed blasting for grading near Holladay Avenue · 1909
The most notable decisions
City trades land with Loretta White to widen Army Street
Ordinance · 6 February 1933 ↗Plans ordered for Hetch Hetchy aqueduct tunnels and pipe lines
Ordinance · 9 January 1928 ↗Land at Holladay and Potrero avenues condemned for Bay Shore Boulevard
Resolution · 13 October 1931 ↗Ferdinand Reis gives new land for a sewer in Precita Valley
Resolution · 4 June 1923 ↗Ferdinand Reis grants a sewer right-of-way off San Bruno Avenue
Resolution · 17 April 1922 ↗Light industry allowed on the north side of Cortland Avenue
Ordinance · 23 March 1925 ↗Army Street widened to 74 feet between San Bruno and Holladay
Resolution · 25 July 1921 ↗John Lydon to be paid $550 for land on Army Street
Resolution · 22 July 1918 ↗John Lydon's offer of Army Street land accepted for $550
Resolution · 15 July 1918 ↗City to condemn land at Army Street and Holladay Avenue
Resolution · 17 June 1918 ↗
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