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Virginia Ave

26 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Virginia Ave, between 1908 and 1960, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about paving and grading, railroads and spur tracks, fire stations.

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What keeps coming up

  • Paving and grading4Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
  • Railroads and spur tracks2Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Fire stations2Engine houses and fire stations.
  • Land bought and sold2Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.
  • Protests and appeals2A protest recorded at a hearing, or an appeal against a decision — brought by neighbours and by applicants alike.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1960s1
    Sports Center Corporation allowed part of the Mission Street sidewalk · 1960
  2. 1920s21
    Payment made for land taken for the Fire Department · 1924
  3. 1910s1
    Virginia Avenue widening refused, and a potato moth warning heard · 1914
  4. 1900s3
    Street levels to be changed on Virginia, Prospect and Winfield avenues · 1909

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