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Palo Alto Ave

30 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Palo Alto Ave, between 1929 and 2005, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1960s; often about permission to open something, environmental review, streets closed for good.

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What keeps coming up

  • Permission to open something7A shop, a clinic, a wrecking yard, a dispensary: uses that needed asking for.
  • Environmental review7Nothing before the 1970s, then permanent: the review law arriving and staying.
  • Streets closed for good3Streets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.
  • Blasting permits2Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
  • Wires put underground2Districts where overhead wires had to come down.
  • 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.

  1. 2000s7
    Findings proposed upholding the 1 La Avanzada Street exemption · 2005
  2. 1980s3
    Part of Palo Alto Avenue closed and sold for $45,000 · 1984
  3. 1970s3
    City buyer allowed to purchase jointly with other public agencies · 1970
  4. 1960s8
    Map approved for widening Twin Peaks Boulevard from Portola Drive · 1966
  5. 1950s3
    $25,000 voted for a new pumping station on Palo Alto Avenue · 1957
  6. 1940s1
    Grove Fink leases Twin Peaks land for a broadcasting station · 1945
  7. 1930s3
    Block near Twin Peaks Boulevard to be limited to single homes · 1938
  8. 1920s2
    Adolph G. Sutro allowed blasting in Sutro Forest · 1929

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