Potrero Ave
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Potrero Ave, between 1906 and 2024, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about clinics and hospitals, streetcars and transit, railroads and spur tracks.
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What keeps coming up
- Clinics and hospitals31Clinics, health centres and hospitals.
- Streetcars and transit20Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- Railroads and spur tracks12Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Paving and grading9Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Blasting permits8Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
- Sewers6Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2020s4Public Health gets $33.7M to rebuild wards at 1001 Potrero Avenue · 2024
- 2010s12Gyms and massage barred from industrial districts near 16th Street · 2017
- 2000s3Bike and bus lanes for Potrero Avenue sent to committee · 2005
- 1980s1Letter asked on the status of the Health Advisory Board · 1980
- 1970s3Community development grants put off with amendments still pending · 1978
- 1940s2$1,600 sought for railway crews' rest rooms at Potrero and Army · 1944
- 1930s12Army Street widened across playground land west of Potrero Avenue · 1933
- 1920s20Payments approved for Sunset tunnel, Hetch Hetchy and boulevard work · 1928
- 1910s44$26,125 paid to Contra Costa Construction for the Church Street railway · 1916
- 1900s19Wm. A. Newsom paid for the emergency hospital on Potrero Avenue · 1909
The most notable decisions
Payments approved for Sunset tunnel, Hetch Hetchy and boulevard work
Resolution · passed · 17 September 1928 ↗$26,125 paid to Contra Costa Construction for the Church Street railway
Resolution · 24 July 1916 ↗Mahoney Bros. paid $45,614.20 for the Van Ness Avenue railway
Resolution · 8 June 1914 ↗Bills paid for Steinhart Aquarium and Portola Drive street work
Resolution · 16 July 1928 ↗$109,500 paid to R. C. Storrie for the Twin Peaks Tunnel
Resolution · 18 September 1916 ↗Wm. A. Newsom paid for the emergency hospital on Potrero Avenue
Resolution · 5 April 1909 ↗University of California Regents sell Potrero Avenue land for a hospital
Resolution · 26 May 1924 ↗Ocean Shore Railroad paid $18,900 for playground land on Army Street
Resolution · 17 December 1917 ↗Crocker Estate and others' land accepted for a Bay View park
Ordinance · 19 October 1915 ↗Gyms and massage barred from industrial districts near 16th Street
Ordinance · 16 May 2017 ↗
Where this comes from
The street holds more than 120 decisions; this page carries the 120 most notable. 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