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Visitacion Ave

43 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Visitacion Ave, between 1917 and 2025, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about railroads and spur tracks, paving and grading, taxis and garages.

Open Visitacion Ave on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

  • Railroads and spur tracks3Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Paving and grading3Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
  • Taxis and garages2Taxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.
  • Sewers2Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
  • Land bought and sold2Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2020s6
    $750,000 grant for Visitacion Avenue walking and cycling safety · 2025
  2. 2010s1
    Hearing on Mansell Street safety sent to committee · 2018
  3. 1980s1
    Elevator repair contracts in city buildings sent to committee · 1987
  4. 1960s1
    Visitacion Avenue east of Tunnel Avenue appears in a street list. · 1961
  5. 1950s3
    Vacant land bought from Henry Day and Joseph Gallagher on Peru · 1952
  6. 1940s1
    Part of Blair Street closed and land taken for Corwin Street · 1942
  7. 1930s9
    Annie Meyer Gray and others deed land for McLaren Park · 1932
  8. 1920s16
    Crocker Estate sells 56.27 acres for a park, $84,405 · 1926
  9. 1910s5
    Curbs and sidewalks for San Bruno Avenue between Leland and Visitacion · 1919

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