Lawton St
105 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Lawton St, between 1910 and 2011, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about schools, parking, land bought and sold.
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What keeps coming up
- Schools13School sites bought, built and repaired.
- Parking6Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- Land bought and sold6Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.
- Streetcars and transit5Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- Sewers5Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Parks and playgrounds4Playgrounds and recreation grounds.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2010s3Part of La Playa Street renamed Great Highway · 2011
- 2000s5New turn lanes and a one-way stretch of Guttenberg Street · 2003
- 1990s1Stop signs set at 10th Avenue and Lawton Street · 1997
- 1980s2Stop signs approved at 35th Avenue and Lawton Street · 1983
- 1970s1Stop signs created at nine corners including Post and Presidio · 1976
- 1960s2Angle parking added on Lawton Street, dropped on Geary Boulevard · 1962
- 1950s5Land bought to flatten a curve on Lomita Avenue · 1952
- 1940s2Angle parking allowed on Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Avenues and Lawton Street · 1949
- 1930s23Land bought from Georges Le Roy for Sunset Playground, $8,000 · 1937
- 1920s56$1,200 paid for school land on Twelfth Avenue near Lawton Street · 1929
- 1910s5Street levels to be changed on Lawton Street and nearby avenues · 1912
The most notable decisions
Land bought from Georges Le Roy for Sunset Playground, $8,000
Resolution · 27 September 1937 ↗Land off Lawton Street to be taken for a public playground
Resolution · 17 August 1936 ↗Robert F. Galway paid for school land at Twelfth and Lawton
Resolution · 1 June 1931 ↗Land bought from Henry Kissel and Hugh Doyle for a school
Resolution · 14 April 1930 ↗$1,200 paid for school land on Twelfth Avenue near Lawton Street
Resolution · 30 September 1929 ↗J. Karsky paid for land on Lawton Street for a school
Resolution · 12 March 1928 ↗Henry Ruffoni paid $4,000 for Funston Avenue school land
Resolution · 5 December 1927 ↗W. W. Haley paid $20,137.50 for Twelfth Avenue school land
Resolution · 5 December 1927 ↗Henry Ruffoni sells Funston Avenue land for a school, $4,000
Resolution · 7 November 1927 ↗Coffin Valve paid $14,520 for the Hetch Hetchy slide gates
Resolution · 15 February 1921 ↗
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