Staples Ave
16 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Staples Ave, between 1912 and 1925, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about paving and grading, sewers.
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What keeps coming up
- Paving and grading7Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Sewers2Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
The most notable decisions
City sets how far back buildings must sit on Staples Avenue
Ordinance · 29 June 1925 ↗Buildings on Staples Avenue and Edna Street may be set back
Resolution · 22 June 1925 ↗Foerster Street and Staples Avenue crossing to be sewered and paved
Ordinance · 13 March 1922 ↗Street levels changed on Staples Avenue and Foerster Street
Ordinance · 11 December 1916 ↗Staples Avenue levels to be changed where it meets Phelan Avenue
Ordinance · 21 February 1916 ↗Street levels set on Phelan Avenue near Ocean Avenue
Ordinance · 17 January 1916 ↗New street levels adopted on Staples Avenue at Phelan Avenue
Resolution · passed · 20 December 1915 ↗New street levels set on Staples Avenue and Foerster Street
Ordinance · 10 September 1912 ↗Street levels to be changed on Staples Avenue and Foerster Street
Ordinance · 4 September 1912 ↗Neighbors object to building lines on Edna Street; bill put off
Ordinance · 15 June 1925 ↗
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