Van Ness Ave
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Van Ness Ave, between 1906 and 2015, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about streetcars and transit, railroads and spur tracks, pg&e and the utilities.
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What keeps coming up
- Streetcars and transit17Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- Railroads and spur tracks9Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- PG&E and the utilities9The gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.
- Sewers7Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
- Paving and grading6Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- War and the military6The military in the city, and what the wars did to it.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2010s1030 Van Ness Avenue to be sold for at least $87M · 2015
- 2000s4Azad Nejad leases a mail shop at the Moscone Center Garage · 2000
- 1990s3$1.2M proposed to buy the building at 25 Van Ness Avenue · 1991
- 1980s1Street bond engineers to be housed at 25 Van Ness Avenue · 1989
- 1940s2City land on Eddy Street sold for $3,350 to Wallace Sheehan · 1944
- 1930s23$228,000 for a trolley bus line from Beale to Army Street · 1939
- 1920s31Galileo High School to be built at Bay and Polk streets · 1920
- 1910s39Western Contracting Co. paid $47,668.01 for the Market Street railway extension · 1918
- 1900s7New City Hall bond vote proposed again after June defeat · 1909
The most notable decisions
$228,000 for a trolley bus line from Beale to Army Street
Ordinance · 14 February 1939 ↗Western Contracting Co. paid $47,668.01 for the Market Street railway extension
Resolution · 20 May 1918 ↗$300,000 set aside to build an aquatic park
Resolution · 17 September 1917 ↗Mahoney Bros. paid $45,614.20 for the Van Ness Avenue railway
Resolution · 8 June 1914 ↗Mahoney Bros. given $235,000.00 to lay the Van Ness Avenue track
Resolution · 30 March 1914 ↗Galileo High School to be built at Bay and Polk streets
Ordinance · 1 June 1920 ↗City sets aside $2,500 for plague suppression work
Resolution · 19 July 1915 ↗Voters to decide November 2 on $5M in sewer bonds
Ordinance · 2 November 1937 ↗$2M fire cistern bond sent to voters in November
Ordinance · 16 October 1933 ↗Voters asked to fund Aquatic Park at $250,000 a year
Resolution · 30 September 1929 ↗
Where this comes from
The street holds more than 120 decisions; this page carries the 120 most notable. 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