Masonic Ave
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Masonic Ave, between 1908 and 2007, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about streetcars and transit, schools, land and buildings split up.
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What keeps coming up
- Streetcars and transit17Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- Schools8School sites bought, built and repaired.
- Land and buildings split up6A lot split in two, or a building divided into flats that sell separately.
- Sewers5Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Land bought and sold5Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.
- Oil tanks and boilers4Fuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2000s2$600,000 sought for safety work on Market Street · 2007
- 1990s1Keeping the Panhandle parking lot off Masonic Avenue sent to committee · 1991
- 1980s2Another motion on the 3 Masonic Avenue parking permit put off · 1988
- 1970s1$475,500 sought for Piers 19 and 23 and reservoir repairs · 1970
- 1960s1$75,000 to alter a ward at Laguna Honda Hospital · 1964
- 1950s2First contract awarded to widen Geary Street between Franklin and Masonic · 1959
- 1940s11School site at Masonic Avenue and Turk Street bought for $86,500 · 1946
- 1930s7Roman Catholic Archbishop paid $12,500 for land to widen Turk Street · 1932
- 1920s53Municipal Railway to be extended along Masonic Avenue to Stanyan Street · 1923
- 1910s36Geary Street line extension along Masonic Avenue to Turk Street proposed · 1913
- 1900s4Art Metal Construction paid $3,604.75 for the library's steel stacks · 1908
The most notable decisions
Municipal Railway to be extended along Masonic Avenue to Stanyan Street
Ordinance · 7 May 1923 ↗Dudley Stone School on Haight Street funded at $387,835
Resolution · 17 November 1924 ↗City sets thirty dollars a month for supporting poor public charges
Ordinance · 3 May 1920 ↗Voters to decide on $4.6M in Municipal Railway extension bonds
Ordinance · 3 October 1927 ↗Voters to decide on extending Masonic Avenue across the Panhandle
Motion · 16 September 1920 ↗School site at Masonic Avenue and Turk Street bought for $86,500
Resolution · 13 May 1946 ↗John Gordino sells Waller Street land for schools for $12,500
Resolution · 10 April 1922 ↗Bertha Luther sells Waller Street land for schools for $8,000
Resolution · 27 March 1922 ↗Henry Curran paid $8,750 for land for the Dudley Stone School
Resolution · 13 March 1922 ↗Land bought for the Andrew Jackson School for $22,000
Resolution · 6 March 1922 ↗
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