Leland Ave
49 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Leland Ave, between 1914 and 2011, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about libraries, pg&e and the utilities, streetcars and transit.
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What keeps coming up
- Libraries4Branch libraries — several of them shops the city rented one year at a time.
- PG&E and the utilities4The gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.
- Streetcars and transit3Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- Parking3Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- Cemeteries and funerals2Burial and the trades around it, at their heaviest as the city closed its cemeteries.
- 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.
- 2010s4$2.4M voted for the Visitacion Valley library and Leland Avenue wires · 2011
- 2000s14$110,632 approved for Leland Avenue streetscape work · 2008
- 1960s2Corners adopted at Jersey, Locust, Thirty-ninth and Leland Avenues · 1967
- 1950s4Planning Commission overruled and the rezoning appeal granted · 1950
- 1940s3Public Utilities asked how many wells could serve in a catastrophe · 1943
- 1930s3Delta Street between Visitacion and Leland avenues to be closed · 1936
- 1920s2Order to improve San Bruno Avenue's west side is repealed · 1920
- 1910s17Well to be bored at the pumping station on Leland Avenue · 1914
The most notable decisions
$2.4M voted for the Visitacion Valley library and Leland Avenue wires
Ordinance · 4 January 2011 ↗Board backs $2.4M for the Visitacion Valley library and Leland Avenue
Ordinance · 14 December 2010 ↗Visitacion Valley fees fund the branch library and Leland Avenue wires
Ordinance · 2011 ↗Well to be bored at the pumping station on Leland Avenue
Ordinance · 24 February 1914 ↗Curbs and sidewalks for San Bruno Avenue between Leland and Visitacion
Ordinance · 5 May 1919 ↗Sidewalk widths set on Raymond Avenue and Leland Avenue
Ordinance · 23 April 1917 ↗Sidewalk widths set on Raymond and Leland Avenues near Delta Street
Ordinance · 16 April 1917 ↗Twelve-foot sidewalks set on Leland Avenue west of San Bruno
Ordinance · 13 March 1916 ↗Nine-foot sidewalks set on Phelan Avenue between Flood and Ocean
Ordinance · 13 March 1916 ↗$110,632 approved for Leland Avenue streetscape work
Ordinance · passed · 23 September 2008 ↗
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