Qipu
← San Francisco · The city

Ottawa Ave

26 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Ottawa Ave, between 1913 and 1940, 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.

Open Ottawa Ave on the map, street by street →

What keeps coming up

  • Railroads and spur tracks10Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Sewers5Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1940s1
    Nahua Avenue accepted from the Hansens in the Geneva Heights subdivision · 1940
  2. 1930s6
    Jurisdiction acquired over Otega Avenue between Mt. Vernon and Ottawa · 1939
  3. 1920s9
    Morris Stulsaft Investment Company gives the city a sewer right-of-way · 1925
  4. 1910s10
    Southern Pacific gives the city a sewer easement on Ottawa Avenue · 1913

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