Palm Ave
15 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Palm Ave, between 1914 and 1962, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1950s; often about the rules for this street changed, parking, protests and appeals.
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What keeps coming up
- The rules for this street changed3Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.
- Parking2Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- Protests and appeals2A protest recorded at a hearing, or an appeal against a decision — brought by neighbours and by applicants alike.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1960s1Angle parking approved on Jefferson Street and Pennsylvania Avenue · 1962
- 1950s5Sidney Lea's Palm Avenue land bought for Roosevelt Junior High · 1957
- 1940s3Shops refused on Palm Avenue north of Geary Boulevard · 1945
- 1930s1Land on Palm Avenue to be taken for Roosevelt Junior High · 1937
- 1920s4R. Cowles refused a filling station at Geary and Palm · 1929
- 1910s1$170 for a sidewalk by city property on Palm Avenue · 1914
The most notable decisions
Sidney Lea's Palm Avenue land bought for Roosevelt Junior High
Resolution · 9 December 1957 ↗Francis Hughes's Palm Avenue land bought for Roosevelt Junior High
Resolution · 9 December 1957 ↗Land on Palm Avenue to be taken for Roosevelt Junior High
Resolution · 29 November 1937 ↗Turn rule adopted for Army Street traffic entering Guerrero Street
Resolution · passed · 7 December 1959 ↗Sixty-minute parking added on Palm Avenue and many numbered avenues
Resolution · 5 June 1950 ↗$170 for a sidewalk by city property on Palm Avenue
Resolution · 20 April 1914 ↗Angle parking approved on Jefferson Street and Pennsylvania Avenue
Resolution · passed · 2 July 1962 ↗R. Cowles refused a filling station at Geary and Palm
Resolution · 28 January 1929 ↗R. Cowles gets a filling station at Geary and Palm
Resolution · 27 August 1928 ↗Shops refused on Palm Avenue north of Geary Boulevard
Resolution · 1 October 1945 ↗
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