Ocean Ave
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Ocean Ave, between 1906 and 2025, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about sewers, parking, streetcars and transit.
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What keeps coming up
- Sewers14Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Parking14Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- Streetcars and transit10Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- Railroads and spur tracks8Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- PG&E and the utilities7The gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.
- The rules for this street changed7Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2020s8Development deal proposed with Reservoir Community Partners at Balboa Reservoir · 2020
- 2000s7Sidewalk widths to change on Ocean Avenue for the K line · 2000
- 1990s3Parking rules changed on Plymouth Avenue, Buchanan and Willow Streets · 1997
- 1980s4$12.2M sought to extend the J-Church line to the Metro Center · 1984
- 1970s3$950,000 for Municipal Railway land at Twenty-second and Indiana · 1972
- 1960s8$20,000 paid to Arthur Smith for the Geneva Avenue widening · 1964
- 1950s7Road money listed for Clarendon Avenue, West Portal and Geary Street · 1952
- 1940s5Plymouth Avenue rezoning appeal argued over duplexes near Ocean Avenue · 1945
- 1930s10Gas tax money agreed for Ocean Avenue and Islais Creek bridge · 1936
- 1920s21Commodore Sloat School to be built on Junipero Serra Boulevard · 1920
- 1910s32Budget list sets $200,000 for the maintenance of minors · 1913
- 1900s12Boulevard from Ocean Avenue to the county line named Junipero Serra · 1908
The most notable decisions
Budget list sets $200,000 for the maintenance of minors
Motion · 20 May 1913 ↗Commodore Sloat School to be built on Junipero Serra Boulevard
Ordinance · 13 December 1920 ↗School land bought from Chas. W. Sutro on Ocean Avenue
Resolution · 29 March 1926 ↗$950,000 for Municipal Railway land at Twenty-second and Indiana
Ordinance · 27 December 1972 ↗$12.2M sought to extend the J-Church line to the Metro Center
Resolution · proposed · 26 November 1984 ↗Gas tax money agreed for Ocean Avenue and Islais Creek bridge
Resolution · 28 September 1936 ↗Italian Hospital allowed to build on Broadway near Van Ness Avenue
Resolution · 2 May 1927 ↗Ocean Avenue near Fairfield Way to be rezoned for shops
Ordinance · 7 March 1927 ↗Development deal proposed with Reservoir Community Partners at Balboa Reservoir
Ordinance · proposed · 18 August 2020 ↗Money moved to buy right of way for Nineteenth Avenue widening
Resolution · 30 January 1939 ↗
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