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Sickles Ave

78 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Sickles Ave, between 1910 and 2004, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about railroads and spur tracks, paving and grading, land bought and sold.

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What keeps coming up

  • Railroads and spur tracks10Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Paving and grading8Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
  • Land bought and sold4Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.
  • Land and buildings split up4A lot split in two, or a building divided into flats that sell separately.
  • Streetcars and transit2Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2000s1
    Parking changes on Howard, Taylor and Masonic, including Trader Joe's frontage · 2004
  2. 1970s1
    One-way streets established on Howth and Louisburg Streets · 1976
  3. 1960s1
    State to repay up to $26,000 for repaving Alemany Boulevard · 1965
  4. 1940s2
    Travis lien on Sears Street put behind a home loan · 1940
  5. 1930s25
    Southern Pacific grants road rights at San Jose and Sickles avenues · 1936
  6. 1920s29
    Shops allowed along San Jose Avenue between Sickles and Regent · 1928
  7. 1910s19
    Sidewalks set at ten feet on San Jose 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