Tunnel Ave
27 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Tunnel Ave, between 1924 and 2009, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1990s; often about parking, the rules for this street changed.
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What keeps coming up
- Parking6Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- The rules for this street changed4Rezonings, height limits, and rules written for one block.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2000s6Visitacion Valley zoning and height changes finally passed · 2009
- 1990s8City takes over the Tunnel Avenue roadway at the county line · 1997
- 1960s1Visitacion Avenue east of Tunnel Avenue appears in a street list. · 1961
- 1950s1Homans Street land traded to Southern Pacific to extend Tunnel Avenue · 1955
- 1940s1Street levels set on Tunnel Avenue south of Blanken Avenue · 1948
- 1930s6Tunnel Avenue sidewalks set at ten feet, paid by owners · 1930
- 1920s4Crocker Estate Company's deed accepted, Tunnel Avenue becomes a public street · 1924
The most notable decisions
Visitacion Valley zoning and height changes finally passed
Ordinance · passed · 28 April 2009 ↗Homans Street land traded to Southern Pacific to extend Tunnel Avenue
Resolution · 14 February 1955 ↗Crocker Estate Company's deed accepted, Tunnel Avenue becomes a public street
Resolution · 15 September 1924 ↗City takes over the Tunnel Avenue roadway at the county line
Ordinance · 8 January 1997 ↗City to take over the roadway on Tunnel Avenue
Ordinance · 23 December 1996 ↗Tunnel Avenue sidewalks set at ten feet, paid by owners
Ordinance · 18 November 1930 ↗Presidio Avenue sidewalks set at ten feet between California and Washington
Ordinance · 15 September 1924 ↗Truck weight limits set on Blanken and Tunnel Avenues
Ordinance · 3 March 1997 ↗Heavy trucks barred from two blocks of Tunnel Avenue
Ordinance · 16 May 2006 ↗Map of the new Tunnel Avenue approved
Resolution · passed · 15 September 1924 ↗
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