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Yosemite Ave

49 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Yosemite Ave, between 1914 and 1993, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1930s; often about railroads and spur tracks, sewers, blasting permits.

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What keeps coming up

  • Railroads and spur tracks9Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Sewers6Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
  • Blasting permits2Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
  • Fire stations2Engine houses and fire stations.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1990s5
    Parts of Yosemite and Armstrong Avenues to be closed and sold · 1993
  2. 1980s3
    Sewer to cross Port land at Yosemite Avenue and Hawes Street · 1985
  3. 1960s4
    City takes over the new roadway on Yosemite Avenue · 1965
  4. 1950s6
    City takes over the new roadway on Yosemite Avenue · 1959
  5. 1940s1
    Shoup Avenue relocated between Yosemite Avenue and Egbert Avenue · 1940
  6. 1930s13
    $14,500 for a new sewer in Ingalls Street · 1931
  7. 1920s8
    Block at Third Street and Yosemite Avenue rezoned for light industry · 1924
  8. 1910s9
    Two strips of land taken on each side of Corbett Avenue · 1914

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