Huron Ave
34 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Huron Ave, between 1907 and 1996, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about sewers, paving and grading, railroads and spur tracks.
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What keeps coming up
- Sewers9Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Paving and grading4Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Railroads and spur tracks3Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Parking3Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- Keeping horses and cows2Until about 1930 the Board voted on whether you could keep animals at your address.
- Land bought and sold2Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1990s2All-way stops set at three Shotwell Street crossings and Anza Street · 1996
- 1980s2Parking rules rewritten on Huron Avenue · 1985
- 1970s1Jitney bus stands set on Sickles and Huron Avenues · 1979
- 1950s1Catherine Datello allowed a stairway in the Foote Avenue sidewalk · 1954
- 1940s1City lien put behind Estelle Sebanc's mortgage on Huron Avenue · 1943
- 1930s3Annie Eaton's estate paid $1,850.48 for Alemany Boulevard land · 1931
- 1920s13Annie Curry paid $12,960 for land to widen Alemany Boulevard · 1926
- 1910s9Antonio Tiscornia and Stefano Ventre paid $3,150 for sewer land · 1915
- 1900s2Ocean Shore Railway paid $700 for extending the Kansas Street sewer · 1907
The most notable decisions
Annie Eaton's estate paid $1,850.48 for Alemany Boulevard land
Resolution · 31 August 1931 ↗Annie Curry paid $12,960 for land to widen Alemany Boulevard
Resolution · 18 October 1926 ↗Antonio Tiscornia and Stefano Ventre paid $3,150 for sewer land
Resolution · 9 August 1915 ↗City Attorney to take land for the Islais Creek sewer
Resolution · 20 April 1914 ↗City buys Cereghino land at Lake Geneva for a sewer, $1,000
Resolution · 11 November 1912 ↗Shops and two-family housing allowed on Geneva Avenue near Huron
Ordinance · 10 December 1928 ↗City to take land at Sickles and Huron avenues
Resolution · 14 September 1931 ↗John Daniel paid $25,621.61 for the North Point main sewer
Resolution · 25 November 1912 ↗Varni family land on Geneva Avenue accepted as public street
Resolution · 10 May 1926 ↗Sidewalks to be built on Prospect Avenue and Downey Street
Ordinance · 29 April 1929 ↗
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