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Shafter Ave

25 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Shafter Ave, between 1910 and 1996, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; often about blasting permits, railroads and spur tracks, streets closed for good.

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What keeps coming up

  • Blasting permits2Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
  • Railroads and spur tracks2Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Streets closed for good2Streets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1990s1
    All-way stop set at Frederick and Shrader Streets, two-way at Hawes · 1996
  2. 1980s4
    Heavy vehicles to be barred from Quesada, Revere and Shafter Avenues · 1987
  3. 1970s2
    Herbst Foundation gives Fitch Street land and $10,000 to the city · 1974
  4. 1960s5
    Southern Pacific extends its Shafter Avenue spur track 261 feet · 1961
  5. 1950s5
    Rankin Street lots bought from Egizia Pellinacci for a school · 1950
  6. 1940s4
    Parts of Layton Street and Rankin Street to be closed · 1941
  7. 1910s4
    Street levels to be changed on Shafter Avenue · 1917

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