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120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Ellis St, between 1906 and 2011, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about parking, oil tanks and boilers, streets closed for good.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Ellis St, between 1906 and 2011
Most of them in the 1920s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.14
Oil tanks and boilersFuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.11
Streets closed for goodStreets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.11
Taxis and garagesTaxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.6
LaundriesLaundries needed the Board's permission, and their neighbours sometimes objected.5
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.5

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2010s2
    Powell Street Promenade accepted as a gift for public use · 2011
  2. 2000s5
    Proposed, approved later: Two-way traffic urged for the length of Eddy and Ellis Streets · 2007
  3. 1990s3
    Proposed, approved later: Replacing Laguna Honda Hospital declared necessary · 1999
  4. 1980s7
    Ellis Street to be closed for good in the Western Addition · 1986
  5. 1970s12
    Proposal to make Powell Street between Eddy and Ellis a pedestrian mall (outcome not in the record) · 1974
  6. 1960s5
    $54,000 paid to John F. Ferreira for the Westside Health Center · 1964
  7. 1950s2
    Proposed: Harold B. Hoogasian taking over the Powell Street flower stand permit · 1950
  8. 1940s7
    Proposed: rerouting the No. 31 line along Ellis Street · 1942
  9. 1930s8
    Loading zone set outside Notre Dame des Victoires on Bush Street · 1930
  10. 1920s34
    Payment of $33,750 to Nina Pepper for Alvarado School land on Buchanan Street approved · 1925
  11. 1910s10
    $8,250 paid for Mary Paula's land condemned for the Adams School · 1915
  12. 1900s25
    Proposal to offer a twenty-five year franchise for a double track railroad (outcome not in the record) · 1909

The most notable decisions

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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

See also

Streets near it on the record

Powell StSame block of the map, 120+ decisions on recordEddy St120+ decisions on record, next to it in the rankingEvans Ave120+ decisions on record, next to it in the rankingDuboce Ave120+ decisions on record, next to it in the ranking

Overview

The city, drawn from its own recordEvery block, and what the Board of Supervisors decided there