The San Francisco call., 1896-03-20
Van Ness Avenue Reserved
Through a Property-0wners'
Petition.
HEAVY TRAFFIC PROHIBITED.
Folsom Street From Third to Sixth
Will Be Paved With Bituminous
Rock.

The Street Committee of the Board OF
Supervisors decided yesterday to recon-
mend two important improvements to the
board at its next meeting.
The first was the matter of the Van Ness
avenue boulevard, which the Van Ness
Avenue Improvement Club has been agi-
tating for some time past. The commit
tee decided to report in favor of reserving
the thoroughfare as was done in the case
OF Golden Gate avenue, prohibiting the
passage of heavy teams for a greater dis
tance than one block and forever prohibit
ing the granting of street railroad fran
chises on the avenue.
The petition OF the improvement club
to have strip twenty one feet wide in the
center OF the thoroughfare reserved for the
purpose OF planting ornamental trees and
shrubs was placed on file. The reason of
this action was that the property-owners
on the avenue expected the City to pay for
the proposed improvements in the face of
the fact that a statute exists that prevents
the Board of Supervisors from passing ap-
propriations for such purposes.
After being informed of the legal view
of the matter the committee decided that
the City, and that if the property-owners
must have the center of the avenue orna-
mented they must do SO at their own ex-
pense.
The committee also decided in favor of
recommending the bituminizing of Fol-
som street, between Third and Sixth
streets.
This is an improvement that the South
Side Improvement Club has been agitat-
ing ever since the board decided on the
permanent improvement of Folsom street.
1t is the opening wedge to have the south
of Market street thoroughfare declared
boulevard. Clerk Russell was instructed
to advertise for bids for the work.
1t was decided to report in favor of the
following petitions: Mrs. A. M. Parrott,
to erect electric light posts in front of the
new Parrott building on Market street;
Holly Park and Mission Street Improve
ment Club, for the removal of distractions
of East Park street; superintendent of the
branch jail, for the purchase of sprink
ling cart with which to water the county
roads.
Protests to stop the following proposed
work for six months were granted: Mac
adamlzing of Mariposa street from Ken
lucky to Indiana; grading of Fourteenth
avenue south from Railroad avenue to N
street. and the paving OF Twenty fourth
street from castro to Diamond.
Petitions for the following street work
were considered favorably: For the paw
ing of Haight between Masonic and STAN
yam; for the grading of B street from
Sixth to Eighth avenue; for the closing
| OF Huron between Sickles avenue and Mis-
sion; for stone sidewalks on Vallejo from
| Webster to Fillmore, and on Jones between
Pacific and Broadway; for the paving Of
Central avenue at the crossing of Pacific
and Jackson. and for stone sidewalks be-
tween Jackson and Pacific; for the paving
of Eighteenth aud Collingwood; for the
grading of First avenue to an 8 per cent
grade.
The Superintendent of Streets was di-
rected to have the sewer in the crossing of
Twelfth avenue and California street re-
constructed and to have a proper outlet
provided for the sewer in Twelfth avenue.
| Supervisor Spreckels called attention to
complaints that had been made of inde-
cent exhibitions at the Seventh avenue
waste pond on the Almshouse road. He
stated that men and boys were in the habit
of bathing there, and made a motion that
was carried that the Chief of Police be no
titled to stop the practice mentioned.