Powhattan Ave
28 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Powhattan Ave, between 1916 and 1985, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1930s; often about paving and grading, blasting permits.
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What keeps coming up
- Paving and grading4Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Blasting permits2Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1980s2Sidewalk widths to change on Franconia Street between Esmeralda and Powhattan · 1985
- 1970s5City takes over the new Franconia Street roadway and curbs · 1973
- 1960s1City moves to take over Bradford Street and Powhattan Avenue roadways · 1962
- 1950s6$6,000 voted for radio telephones at Hetch Hetchy · 1952
- 1930s9Houses in the path of Bernal Heights Boulevard to be auctioned off · 1931
- 1920s3George Comstock paid $150 for land for Bernal Heights Boulevard · 1927
- 1910s2New sewers ordered on Bradford Street near Powhattan Avenue · 1916
The most notable decisions
George Comstock paid $150 for land for Bernal Heights Boulevard
Resolution · 13 June 1927 ↗Moore Investment Company sells land for $1,350 for Bernal Heights Boulevard
Resolution · 16 May 1927 ↗$6,000 voted for radio telephones at Hetch Hetchy
Ordinance · 17 March 1952 ↗Land bought on Potrero Avenue south of Twenty-fifth Street
Resolution · 9 June 1952 ↗Sidewalk widths to change on Franconia Street between Esmeralda and Powhattan
Ordinance · 29 April 1985 ↗City takes over the new Franconia Street roadway and curbs
Ordinance · 10 December 1973 ↗Franconia Street to be improved with about $24,000 in city aid
Ordinance · 6 March 1972 ↗Powhattan and Peralta Avenues improvement ordered with $5,500 city aid
Ordinance · 30 January 1956 ↗$2,600 finally passed for Esmeralda Avenue between Bernal Heights and Peralta
Ordinance · passed · 31 March 1952 ↗New sewer ordered under Ellsworth Street near Powhattan Avenue
Ordinance · 8 October 1923 ↗
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