Ortega St
59 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Ortega St, between 1913 and 1999, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about keeping horses and cows, railroads and spur tracks, parking.
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What keeps coming up
- Keeping horses and cows3Until about 1930 the Board voted on whether you could keep animals at your address.
- Railroads and spur tracks3Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Parking3Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1990s3Stop signs set at 10th Avenue and Lawton Street · 1997
- 1980s1Hassler Hospital sale money proposed for a San Francisco General laboratory · 1981
- 1970s1Morning parking bans set on Vicente, Quintara and nearby avenues · 1979
- 1960s1Six-month trial stop signs at 16th Avenue, Noriega and Ortega · 1965
- 1950s12$11,000 each paid George LaBrash and John Murray for school land · 1951
- 1940s10City to take land between Quintara and Ortega Streets · 1946
- 1930s10Part of Congo Street at Mangels Avenue to be closed · 1936
- 1920s18Carl G. Larsen's strip of land between Pacheco and Ortega accepted · 1926
- 1910s3Tenth Avenue to be curbed and paved south of Ortega Street · 1919
The most notable decisions
$11,000 each paid George LaBrash and John Murray for school land
Resolution · 27 August 1951 ↗Wallace and Grant sell a Forty-first Avenue school lot for $3,500
Resolution · 18 December 1950 ↗Morning parking bans set on Vicente, Quintara and nearby avenues
Resolution · 22 October 1979 ↗Land bought on Ortega Street west of Thirty-eighth Avenue
Resolution · 13 November 1950 ↗A five-room house bought on Ortega Street near Thirty-ninth Avenue
Resolution · 11 September 1950 ↗Ortega Street lot bought from Raymond W. Varley for $10,000
Resolution · 3 July 1950 ↗City to take land between Quintara and Ortega Streets
Resolution · 16 September 1946 ↗Land at Quintara Street and Thirty-seventh Avenue to be acquired
Resolution · 16 September 1946 ↗Carl G. Larsen's strip of land between Pacheco and Ortega accepted
Resolution · 22 November 1926 ↗Ortega Street land accepted from California Pacific Title Insurance
Resolution · 30 March 1925 ↗
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