Junipero Serra Ave
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Junipero Serra Ave, between 1906 and 1970, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about paving and grading, sewers, fire stations.
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What keeps coming up
- Paving and grading19Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Sewers12Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Fire stations8Engine houses and fire stations.
- Police stations5Police stations and the sites bought for them.
- Railroads and spur tracks4Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Streetcars and transit4Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1970s1Concrete stairway in Corbin Place accepted by the city · 1970
- 1960s4Appeal over single-family rezoning of Block 2746 at Corbett Avenue · 1960
- 1950s1$2,200 in city aid ordered for Burnett Avenue and Dixie Alley · 1959
- 1940s1Air raid wardens report on dim-out patrols and a citywide census · 1945
- 1930s23Leccie Sedgley Thomson trades land to widen Corbett Avenue · 1932
- 1920s9George S. Crim paid $3,994 for property on Corbett Avenue · 1925
- 1910s68C. L. Wold to build Redding School at Pine and Larkin · 1916
- 1900s13Rule that signs be outlined in light bulbs would be dropped · 1908
The most notable decisions
C. L. Wold to build Redding School at Pine and Larkin
Resolution · 10 January 1916 ↗The Lindgren Co. paid $10,500 for the Civic Center library
Resolution · 20 December 1915 ↗Rule that signs be outlined in light bulbs would be dropped
Ordinance · 20 April 1908 ↗$75,620.25 paid to F. Rolandi for the Hetch Hetchy railroad
Resolution · 17 July 1916 ↗Leccie Sedgley Thomson trades land to widen Corbett Avenue
Resolution · 23 February 1932 ↗Meri Merlotti and Angela Testa paid $30 to widen Corbett Avenue
Resolution · 8 February 1932 ↗Six more owners sell land for the widening of Corbett Avenue
Resolution · 2 June 1930 ↗Strips bought from Virginia and A. M. Harrell for Corbett Avenue
Resolution · 2 June 1930 ↗Corbett Avenue widening buys strips from Daisy Noel and four others
Resolution · 12 May 1930 ↗Sheehy, Anderson, Young and Sexton sell slivers to widen Corbett Avenue
Resolution · 28 April 1930 ↗
Where this comes from
The street holds more than 120 decisions; this page carries the 120 most notable. 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