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Seneca Ave

48 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Seneca Ave, between 1915 and 2001, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1930s; often about schools, land bought and sold, the rules for this street changed.

Open Seneca Ave on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

  • Schools7School sites bought, built and repaired.
  • Land bought and sold6Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.
  • The rules for this street changed5Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.
  • Land and buildings split up3A lot split in two, or a building divided into flats that sell separately.
  • Taxis and garages2Taxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.
  • Parking2Where 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. 2000s1
    Neoplan USA bus contract of $128.2M sent to committee · 2001
  2. 1990s1
    Parking rules changed on Green, De Haro and Gilbert Streets · 1998
  3. 1950s5
    Shops allowed on Seneca Avenue, west of Mission Street · 1953
  4. 1940s1
    Parts of Knights Place near Seneca Avenue proposed for closing · 1941
  5. 1930s27
    Jurisdiction gained over parts of Seneca and Otsego Avenues · 1939
  6. 1920s6
    Elizabeth Kelly sells land at Delano Avenue for a school · 1928
  7. 1910s7
    $11,312 set aside to pay P. Broderick for school land · 1915

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