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Mount Vernon Ave

20 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Mount Vernon Ave, between 1906 and 1959, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about railroads and spur tracks, sewers, paving and grading.

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What keeps coming up

  • Railroads and spur tracks7Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Sewers5Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
  • Paving and grading4Cutting 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.

  1. 1950s1
    Two-family housing refused on Ellington Avenue near Ottawa Avenue · 1959
  2. 1940s1
    Property boundary near Mount Vernon and Otega Avenues approved · 1940
  3. 1930s1
    Three lots seized over Circular Avenue widening costs are redeemed · 1930
  4. 1920s12
    Morris Stulsaft Investment Company gives the city a sewer right-of-way · 1925
  5. 1900s5
    Frank and May Webb give land to open Williar Avenue · 1907

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