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120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Roosevelt Way, between 1919 and 1974, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about protests and appeals, clinics and hospitals, schools.

120+
decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Roosevelt Way, between 1919 and 1974
Most of them in the 1920s · Open on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

Protests and appealsA protest recorded at a hearing, or an appeal against a decision — brought by neighbours and by applicants alike.8
Clinics and hospitalsClinics, health centres and hospitals.6
SchoolsSchool sites bought, built and repaired.5
Paving and gradingCutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.4
ParkingWhere you could leave a car, and where you could not.4
Streetcars and transitStreetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.3

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1970s6
    Proposed: overturning the Planning Commission on Roosevelt Way zoning · 1974
  2. 1950s4
    Part of Sixteenth Street at Roosevelt Way closed for good · 1959
  3. 1940s1
    Air raid wardens report on dim-out patrols and a citywide census · 1945
  4. 1930s7
    Bulkheads ordered on the north side of Roosevelt Way · 1931
  5. 1920s100
    Proposed: paying school contractors, including $20,672.50 to Anderson & Ringrose · 1925
  6. 1910s2
    Fry family sells land for $650 to widen Roosevelt Way · 1919

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