Parker Ave
117 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Parker Ave, between 1908 and 1995, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about cemeteries and funerals, paving and grading, sewers.
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What keeps coming up
- Cemeteries and funerals20Burial and the trades around it, at their heaviest as the city closed its cemeteries.
- Paving and grading11Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Sewers8Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Protests and appeals8A protest recorded at a hearing, or an appeal against a decision — brought by neighbours and by applicants alike.
- Railroads and spur tracks7Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- The rules for this street changed5Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1990s2Rules for calculating public aid grants sent to committee · 1995
- 1980s1University of San Francisco allowed underground cables under Fulton Street · 1989
- 1970s5Crosswalks added and removed on Parker Avenue · 1972
- 1960s2San Francisco College for Women allowed a road onto Parker Avenue · 1962
- 1950s5Stop signs set at Anza and Parker and at Darien Way · 1956
- 1940s5Wires to go underground in Laurel Heights, formerly Laurel Hill Cemetery · 1946
- 1930s22Bodies to be removed from Calvary Cemetery within three years · 1936
- 1920s37Calvary Cemetery told to begin moving bodies within two years · 1924
- 1910s36Amended plans approved for Geary Street Railway track construction · 1912
- 1900s2Sidewalks on Parker Avenue set at fifteen and twelve feet wide · 1908
The most notable decisions
Calvary Cemetery told to begin moving bodies within two years
Ordinance · 21 April 1924 ↗Bodies at Calvary Cemetery to be removed within five years
Ordinance · 7 April 1924 ↗Bodies to be removed from Calvary Cemetery within three years
Ordinance · 2 March 1936 ↗City to buy 245 acres from Jersey Farms for a jail
Resolution · 5 October 1931 ↗Bodies must leave the Odd Fellows Cemetery within two years
Ordinance · 25 June 1928 ↗Two-family housing allowed near Parker Avenue and California Street
Ordinance · 20 June 1927 ↗Amended plans approved for Geary Street Railway track construction
Resolution · passed · 25 March 1912 ↗Max Glucksman's land bought to widen Parker Avenue
Resolution · 1 June 1931 ↗Sisters of the Presentation and the Archbishop give Turk Street land
Resolution · 21 February 1927 ↗Wires to go underground in Laurel Heights, formerly Laurel Hill Cemetery
Ordinance · 29 July 1946 ↗
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