Oakdale Ave
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Oakdale Ave, between 1910 and 2022, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about railroads and spur tracks, sewers, schools.
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What keeps coming up
- Railroads and spur tracks16Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Sewers14Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Schools9School sites bought, built and repaired.
- Paving and grading8Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Streetcars and transit5Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- Fire stations5Engine houses and fire stations.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2020s6Clerk told to write findings reversing the 2000 Oakdale Avenue exemption · 2022
- 2010s6$997,217 for the District Attorney's Safer Together project sent to committee · 2014
- 2000s1Saturday closure of Mendell Street sent to committee · 2006
- 1990s9$3.4M in federal money for rebuilding the Oakdale Avenue Bridge · 1996
- 1980s1No U-turn set on Bayshore Boulevard south of Oakdale Avenue · 1989
- 1970s4Griffith Street sidewalk fixed at 12.5 feet between Navy and Oakdale · 1973
- 1960s1Left turns banned off Third Street at Palou and Oakdale Avenues · 1969
- 1950s5Turn rules adopted for Broadway at Sansome and Bay Shore Boulevard · 1959
- 1940s4$500 sale of Newcomb and Oakdale Avenue land rescinded · 1947
- 1930s8Florence Claraty leases the Tehama Street school land for $101 monthly · 1936
- 1920s10Land at Barneveld and Oakdale avenues to be taken for streets · 1927
- 1910s65Land to be condemned for more room at the Burnett School · 1910
The most notable decisions
Land to be condemned for more room at the Burnett School
Resolution · 31 October 1910 ↗Benjamin Gilbert to be paid $2,000 for Burnett School land
Resolution · 1 August 1910 ↗John and Mary Franke to be paid $3,500 for school land
Resolution · 18 July 1910 ↗Robert McMillan to be paid $5,600 for James Lick School land
Resolution · 18 July 1910 ↗Benjamin Gilbert's Oakdale Avenue land bought for $2,000 for Burnett School
Resolution · 15 July 1910 ↗Robert McMillan's land bought for the James Lick School
Resolution · 15 July 1910 ↗City sues to buy land for the Burnett and Monroe schools
Resolution · 20 June 1910 ↗Bus service recommended from Potrero Avenue to the Bay View district
Resolution · 3 February 1919 ↗$250,000 asked to extend the Municipal Railway to Hunters Point
Resolution · 21 March 1918 ↗$3.4M in federal money for rebuilding the Oakdale Avenue Bridge
Resolution · 9 December 1996 ↗
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