Qipu
← San Francisco · The city

Melrose Ave

24 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Melrose Ave, between 1912 and 1964, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1940s; often about paving and grading, sewers, parks and playgrounds.

Open Melrose Ave on the map, street by street →

What keeps coming up

  • Paving and grading5Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
  • Sewers3Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
  • Parks and playgrounds2Playgrounds and recreation grounds.
  • Land and buildings split up2A lot split in two, or a building divided into flats that sell separately.

Decade by decade

Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.

  1. 1960s5
    Melrose Avenue land given up for Sunnyside Playground · 1964
  2. 1940s6
    Crocker Estate land dedicated as part of Stillings and Melrose Avenues · 1942
  3. 1930s4
    William Henicke gives the city land for the Melrose Avenue work · 1932
  4. 1920s5
    Sunnyside owners give up land to widen Melrose and Kenyon Avenues · 1927
  5. 1910s4
    $2,469.32 paid Federal Construction for the Foerster Street storm sewer · 1915

The most notable decisions

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