Ellis St
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.
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What keeps coming up
- Parking14Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- Oil tanks and boilers11Fuel-oil tanks and boilers, each one licensed by name and capacity.
- Streets closed for good11Streets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.
- Taxis and garages6Taxicab stands and public garages, as the car arrived in the city.
- Laundries5Laundries needed the Board's permission, and their neighbours sometimes objected.
- Paving and grading5Cutting 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.
- 2010s2Powell Street Promenade accepted as a gift for public use · 2011
- 2000s5Two-way traffic urged for the length of Eddy and Ellis Streets · 2007
- 1990s3Replacing Laguna Honda Hospital declared necessary, sent to committee · 1999
- 1980s7Ellis Street to be closed for good in the Western Addition · 1986
- 1970s12Powell Street between Eddy and Ellis became a pedestrian mall · 1974
- 1960s5$54,000 paid to John F. Ferreira for the Westside Health Center · 1964
- 1950s2Harold B. Hoogasian takes over the Powell Street flower stand permit · 1950
- 1940s7Rerouting the No. 31 line along Ellis Street sent to committee · 1942
- 1930s8Loading zone set outside Notre Dame des Victoires on Bush Street · 1930
- 1920s34Nina Pepper paid $33,750 for Alvarado School land on Buchanan Street · 1925
- 1910s10$8,250 paid for Mary Paula's land condemned for the Adams School · 1915
- 1900s25Twenty-five year franchise offered for a double track railroad · 1909
The most notable decisions
$54,000 paid to John F. Ferreira for the Westside Health Center
Ordinance · 21 September 1964 ↗Nina Pepper paid $33,750 for Alvarado School land on Buchanan Street
Resolution · 16 March 1925 ↗Samuel Meyer paid $11,250 for Edison School land on Hollis Street
Resolution · 9 March 1925 ↗M. A. Gwinn paid $6,850 for Everett School land
Resolution · 24 February 1925 ↗$8,250 paid for Mary Paula's land condemned for the Adams School
Resolution · 28 December 1915 ↗City pays William and Louise John $16,500 for Adams School yard
Resolution · 30 August 1915 ↗Twenty-five year franchise offered for a double track railroad
Ordinance · 17 May 1909 ↗Twenty-five year railroad franchise offered on city streets
Ordinance · 12 April 1909 ↗Replacing Laguna Honda Hospital declared necessary, sent to committee
Resolution · in progress · 7 June 1999 ↗Powell Street between Eddy and Ellis became a pedestrian mall
Departmental work · 1974 ↗
Where this comes from
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