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Orizaba Ave

61 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Orizaba Ave, between 1914 and 1990, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about streetcars and transit, the rules for this street changed, railroads and spur tracks.

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What keeps coming up

  • Streetcars and transit5Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
  • The rules for this street changed5Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.
  • Railroads and spur tracks4Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Paving and grading3Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
  • Sewers3Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
  • Land bought and sold2Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1990s1
    Zoning change at 8 Orizaba Avenue finally passed · 1990
  2. 1980s2
    Finding of no harm from Ocean Avenue rezoning sent to committee · 1983
  3. 1960s1
  4. 1950s3
    Adopted, the Southern Freeway from Orizaba Avenue to the Bayshore · 1956
  5. 1930s12
    Assessment district set around Orizaba Avenue and Montana Street · 1931
  6. 1920s35
    A block near Darien Way to be taken for a school · 1927
  7. 1910s7
    Westinghouse paid $3,850 for transformers for the Hetch Hetchy project · 1917

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