Roosevelt Way
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.
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What keeps coming up
- Protests and appeals8A protest recorded at a hearing, or an appeal against a decision — brought by neighbours and by applicants alike.
- Clinics and hospitals6Clinics, health centres and hospitals.
- Schools5School sites bought, built and repaired.
- Paving and grading4Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Parking4Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
- Streetcars and transit3Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 1970s6Board overturns the Planning Commission on Roosevelt Way zoning · 1974
- 1950s4Part of Sixteenth Street at Roosevelt Way closed for good · 1959
- 1940s1Air raid wardens report on dim-out patrols and a citywide census · 1945
- 1930s7Bulkheads ordered on the north side of Roosevelt Way · 1931
- 1920s100School contractors paid, including $20,672.50 to Anderson & Ringrose · 1925
- 1910s2Fry family sells land for $650 to widen Roosevelt Way · 1919
The most notable decisions
School contractors paid, including $20,672.50 to Anderson & Ringrose
Motion · 14 December 1925 ↗City sets thirty dollars a month for supporting poor public charges
Ordinance · 3 May 1920 ↗Payment made for land bought for school purposes
Resolution · 20 July 1925 ↗City pays Associated Charities $12,435.79 for widows' pensions
Resolution · 18 October 1920 ↗Utah Construction paid $163,710.24 for work on the Hetch Hetchy dam
Resolution · 24 October 1921 ↗Grant Smith & Company paid $49,309.60 for the Pulgas Tunnel
Resolution · 4 August 1924 ↗$53,000 for water and sewer systems at Mather in Tuolumne County
Resolution · 2 May 1927 ↗$3,500 set aside for land to widen Roosevelt Way
Resolution · 14 September 1925 ↗$510 paid for land to widen and extend Market Street
Resolution · 20 July 1925 ↗$2,500 paid for land to widen Roosevelt Way
Resolution · 24 November 1924 ↗
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