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Newcomb Ave

56 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Newcomb Ave, between 1910 and 2015, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 2010s; often about railroads and spur tracks, streets closed for good, dance halls and masquerades.

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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.
  • Streets closed for good6Streets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.
  • Dance halls and masquerades5Permits for balls and dances, named by the club holding them and the hall they hired.
  • Police stations2Police stations and the sites bought for them.
  • Environmental review2Nothing before the 1970s, then permanent: the review law arriving and staying.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2010s14
    Newcomb Avenue streetscape money adopted for the 1700 block · 2010
  2. 2000s2
    $60,000 federal grant accepted for the Clean Cities Coalition · 2009
  3. 1990s1
    Mendell Street and two others to close for Earth Day · 1991
  4. 1980s3
    Part of Newcomb Avenue closed for good near Phelps Street · 1984
  5. 1970s3
    City takes over the roadway of Newcomb Avenue and elsewhere · 1974
  6. 1960s4
    An ordinance listing scores of street blocks across the city. · 1967
  7. 1950s5
    Public Works land at Spruce and Anza Streets to be auctioned · 1953
  8. 1940s2
    Land near Islais Creek taken for the North Point sludge plant · 1945
  9. 1930s1
    City rents a small plot on Lane Street from George Molema · 1936
  10. 1920s12
    Newcomb Avenue ordered opened and extended · 1925
  11. 1910s9
    Newcomb Avenue to be graded and paved at Lane Street · 1916

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