Point Lobos Ave
112 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Point Lobos Ave, between 1906 and 1986, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1900s; often about paving and grading, railroads and spur tracks, fire stations.
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What keeps coming up
- Paving and grading11Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Railroads and spur tracks7Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Fire stations6Engine houses and fire stations.
- Wires put underground4Districts where overhead wires had to come down.
- PG&E and the utilities4The gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.
- Keeping horses and cows3Until about 1930 the Board voted on whether you could keep animals at your address.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1980s3Speed limit set on Point Lobos Avenue · 1981
- 1970s5Part of Point Lobos Avenue closed near Sutro Heights Park · 1977
- 1950s4A right-of-way strip and depot site bought near Merrie Way · 1952
- 1940s3Land near Sutro Baths and Fleishhacker Playfield taken by the city · 1949
- 1930s4Board overturns the refusal to allow shops on Forty-seventh Avenue · 1932
- 1920s16Utah Construction paid $95,696.22 for building the dam · 1922
- 1910s25City railway planned along Geary Street to the ocean · 1912
- 1900s52Plans for a Geary Street municipal railroad sent to the Board · 1909
The most notable decisions
Utah Construction paid $95,696.22 for building the dam
Resolution · 10 April 1922 ↗City railway planned along Geary Street to the ocean
Ordinance · 12 November 1912 ↗Plans for a Geary Street municipal railroad sent to the Board
Ordinance · 3 May 1909 ↗City railway approved for Geary Street out to Sutro Baths
Ordinance · passed · 10 April 1909 ↗Bonds for a Geary Street railway put to the voters
Ordinance · 8 February 1910 ↗$31,505 set aside to build Engine House No. 47 near Geary
Resolution · 8 April 1929 ↗Engine House No. 47 ordered built at Point Lobos and Geary
Ordinance · 26 November 1928 ↗A right-of-way strip and depot site bought near Merrie Way
Resolution · 4 August 1952 ↗Firehouse site set aside at Point Lobos Avenue and Geary Street
Resolution · 23 January 1928 ↗City declares it needs a municipal railway on Geary Street
Ordinance · 12 April 1909 ↗
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