San Jose Ave
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about San Jose Ave, between 1907 and 2021, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about railroads and spur tracks, housing bonds, streetcars and transit.
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What keeps coming up
- Railroads and spur tracks28Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- Housing bonds7How affordable housing is paid for, in the years since the 1980s.
- Streetcars and transit6Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- Schools6School sites bought, built and repaired.
- Sewers3Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Fire stations2Engine houses and fire stations.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2020s72340 San Jose Avenue leased out for 131 affordable flats · 2021
- 2010s2$80M in housing bonds planned for 2340 San Jose Avenue · 2019
- 2000s3Federal money taken to rebuild the San Jose Avenue hillside · 2001
- 1990s1$110,027 accepted for hillside repair on San Jose Avenue · 1999
- 1950s2City pays Natalie and Dimitry Sivachenko $8,500 for widening land · 1951
- 1940s10$5,600 more for the new firehouse site on Sanchez Street · 1945
- 1930s1Land on San Jose Avenue to be taken for the widening · 1936
- 1920s83Utah Construction Co. paid $39,497.62 for the Hetch Hetchy dam · 1920
- 1910s9P. Broderick's land bought for a school for $9,725 · 1915
- 1900s2Eureka Construction paid for sewers in Ocean and San Jose Avenues · 1907
The most notable decisions
Utah Construction Co. paid $39,497.62 for the Hetch Hetchy dam
Resolution · 9 August 1920 ↗Voters approved $1.4M in bonds for the Bernal Cut
Resolution · passed · 8 August 1927 ↗Voters to decide a $1.4M bond for the Bernal Cut
Resolution · 16 May 1927 ↗Voters to decide $1.4M in bonds for the Bernal Cut
Ordinance · 25 April 1927 ↗2340 San Jose Avenue leased out for 131 affordable flats
Resolution · 8 June 2021 ↗P. Broderick's land bought for a school for $9,725
Resolution · 13 September 1915 ↗$11,312 set aside for Broderick's school land on San Jose Avenue
Resolution · 13 September 1915 ↗Stuart F. Smith paid $1,650 for school land at Seneca Avenue
Resolution · 28 June 1915 ↗$25.3M state award accepted for housing near 2340 San Jose Avenue
Resolution · 8 June 2021 ↗City to lease 2340 San Jose Avenue for 131 affordable homes
Resolution · 4 May 2021 ↗
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