Plymouth Ave
63 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Plymouth Ave, between 1909 and 2006, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about parking, railroads and spur tracks, parks and playgrounds.
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What keeps coming up
- Parking10Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- Railroads and spur tracks7Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Parks and playgrounds7Playgrounds and recreation grounds.
- Blasting permits6Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
- The rules for this street changed4Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.
- Paving and grading3Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2000s4Turn rules on Plymouth Avenue and Polk Street sent to committee · 2004
- 1990s3State to hand over land along Route 280 near Plymouth Avenue · 1993
- 1980s2All-way Stop adopted at Plymouth Avenue · 1989
- 1970s1One-way streets adopted on Moultrie, Lobos and Caine Avenue · 1975
- 1960s3Weekend night rule adopted for Broadway, Kearny and Montgomery Streets · 1966
- 1940s6Part of Montana Street east of Plymouth Avenue closed · 1949
- 1930s7Housing Authority buys the Holly Park block for $62,140 · 1939
- 1920s21Matilda B. Jackson paid $900 for playground land on Plymouth Avenue · 1926
- 1910s15A pergola to be built at the Edison School · 1914
- 1900s1C. Coghill given 75 more days on two fire cisterns · 1909
The most notable decisions
Matilda B. Jackson paid $900 for playground land on Plymouth Avenue
Resolution · 20 December 1926 ↗City Attorney to take Minerva Street land for a playground
Resolution · 13 December 1926 ↗Jennie Walker paid $450 for playground land on Montana Street
Resolution · 22 November 1926 ↗Catherine T. Stone paid $2,800 for Ocean View Playground land
Resolution · 13 July 1925 ↗R. P. Keating also paid for Montana Street playground land
Resolution · 18 May 1925 ↗Housing Authority buys the Holly Park block for $62,140
Ordinance · 17 April 1939 ↗Housing Authority buys fire department land near Holly Park for $6,250
Ordinance · 24 July 1939 ↗State to hand over land along Route 280 near Plymouth Avenue
Resolution · 26 July 1993 ↗A pergola to be built at the Edison School
Ordinance · 16 March 1914 ↗One-way streets adopted on Moultrie, Lobos and Caine Avenue
Resolution · passed · 18 February 1975 ↗
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