Palou Ave
47 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Palou Ave, between 1910 and 2006, 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, paving and grading, parking.
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What keeps coming up
- The rules for this street changed16Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.
- Paving and grading4Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Parking3Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- Streetcars and transit2Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- Churches2Congregations, and the buildings they asked the city about.
- 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.
- 2000s1Saturday closure of Mendell Street sent to committee · 2006
- 1990s2Parking changes on Jessie, Moraga and Duboce Streets proposed · 1998
- 1980s5New Stop signs adopted on Mission Street and Palou Avenue · 1987
- 1970s1Hearings asked on the Wisconsin Street dumping ground on Potrero Hill · 1973
- 1960s2Land at 13th and South Van Ness to become off-street parking · 1969
- 1950s12Angle parking approved on Palou Avenue and Dorman Street · 1956
- 1940s10$65,000 set aside for new water mains at Lakeshore Highlands · 1940
- 1930s4Judson Estate paid $3,126 and given land to open Industrial Street · 1930
- 1920s2Palou Avenue to be improved between Jennings and Hawes Streets · 1926
- 1910s8New sewer for Selby Street between Revere and Oakdale avenues · 1919
The most notable decisions
Land at 13th and South Van Ness to become off-street parking
Resolution · 22 July 1969 ↗Palou Avenue and Mendell Street picked for a public parking lot
Resolution · 1 April 1968 ↗Judson Estate paid $3,126 and given land to open Industrial Street
Resolution · 25 August 1930 ↗Marie Guiraud paid $225 in a land swap for Silver Avenue
Ordinance · 29 May 1939 ↗$65,000 set aside for new water mains at Lakeshore Highlands
Ordinance · 13 May 1940 ↗City to take over Palou Avenue between Industrial and Selby
Resolution · 10 October 1949 ↗City to take over roadways around Apparel City
Ordinance · 17 November 1947 ↗Palou Avenue to be improved between Jennings and Hawes Streets
Ordinance · 14 June 1926 ↗New sewer for Selby Street between Revere and Oakdale avenues
Ordinance · 21 July 1919 ↗New Stop signs adopted on Mission Street and Palou Avenue
Resolution · passed · 1 June 1987 ↗
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