Burrows St
55 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Burrows St, between 1913 and 1977, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about schools, land bought and sold, churches.
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What keeps coming up
- Schools10School sites bought, built and repaired.
- Land bought and sold4Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.
- Churches3Congregations, and the buildings they asked the city about.
- Keeping horses and cows2Until about 1930 the Board voted on whether you could keep animals at your address.
- Blasting permits2Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
- Paving and grading2Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1970s2Two pedestrian underpasses to close at Thornton Avenue and Burrows Street · 1977
- 1960s1Parking changes on Chumasero Drive and Burrows Street adopted · 1962
- 1950s4Land at Burrows Street and LaGrande Avenue bought · 1951
- 1940s7McLaren Park boundaries redrawn from Burrows Street to University Street · 1944
- 1930s5Portions of Dartmouth and Burrows streets closed and abandoned · 1930
- 1920s31Wm. J. Hall paid for school land on Brussels Street · 1925
- 1910s5Goettingen Street to be graded and paved between Burrows and Felton · 1918
The most notable decisions
Wm. J. Hall paid for school land on Brussels Street
Resolution · 11 May 1925 ↗J. Bentzen paid $13,000 for Hawthorne School land on Burrows Street
Resolution · 30 March 1925 ↗Vincento Camilleri paid for land on Girard Street for a school
Resolution · 9 March 1925 ↗Amadio Pagano paid $7,500 for Alvarado School land on Burrows Street
Resolution · 26 January 1925 ↗J. F. Breckweldt paid $6,750 for Alvarado School land
Resolution · 26 January 1925 ↗John Reinhard paid $2,650 for Portola School land on Burrows Street
Resolution · 26 January 1925 ↗McLaren Park boundaries redrawn from Burrows Street to University Street
Resolution · 11 September 1944 ↗McLaren Park boundaries to be redrawn for want of money
Resolution · 28 August 1944 ↗Street lights on new streets need the Lighting Committee's approval
Ordinance · 27 November 1922 ↗Alta Electric paid $8,825 for Mission Junior High School fixtures
Resolution · 19 December 1927 ↗
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