Thomas Ave
20 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Thomas Ave, between 1920 and 1985, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about paving and grading, streets closed for good.
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What keeps coming up
- Paving and grading6Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Streets closed for good5Streets 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.
The most notable decisions
City proposes buying 200 acres for recreation near Railroad Avenue
Resolution · 27 December 1920 ↗No protests; Thomas Avenue and Conkling Street closing moves ahead
Motion · 18 August 1952 ↗Land from F. M. Graff made part of Corbett Avenue
Resolution · 2 June 1941 ↗Map approved for extending Conkling Street to Thomas Avenue
Resolution · passed · 2 June 1941 ↗City takes over Thomas Avenue between Silver Avenue and Selby Street
Ordinance · 22 September 1941 ↗Thomas Avenue work approved with $500 in city aid
Ordinance · passed · 9 December 1957 ↗Thomas Avenue to be improved with $500 in city aid
Ordinance · 2 December 1957 ↗City drops the grading order for Thomas Avenue at Ingalls Street
Ordinance · 24 February 1925 ↗Order to grade Thomas Avenue near Ingalls Street is cancelled
Ordinance · 9 February 1925 ↗Thomas Avenue improvement order repealed
Ordinance · 9 February 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