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Presidio Ave

91 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Presidio Ave, between 1909 and 1989, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about streetcars and transit, railroads and spur tracks, land bought and sold.

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What keeps coming up

  • Streetcars and transit19Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
  • Railroads and spur tracks5Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Land bought and sold4Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.
  • The rules for this street changed4Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.
  • Cemeteries and funerals3Burial and the trades around it, at their heaviest as the city closed its cemeteries.
  • Parking3Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.

Decade by decade

Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.

  1. 1980s11
    $224,000 to renovate the public pound at 949 Presidio Avenue · 1989
  2. 1970s2
    Stop signs created at nine corners including Post and Presidio · 1976
  3. 1960s2
    Rule adopted on Presidio Avenue, Ellis Street and London Street · 1966
  4. 1950s4
    Masonic Avenue extended and Laurel Street widened as public streets · 1954
  5. 1940s14
    $29,540 paid to Mayfair Heights Corporation for more school land · 1946
  6. 1930s3
    Warning signs installed on Presidio Avenue, Duboce Avenue and Twenty-fifth Avenue · 1930
  7. 1920s22
    Geary Street sidewalks widened to twelve feet at owners' expense · 1926
  8. 1910s29
    Municipal car barn at Geary and Presidio to be extended · 1913
  9. 1900s4
    Estimates for turning the Geary cable line into an electric railroad · 1909

The most notable decisions

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