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53 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Ross, between 1908 and 2012, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about cemeteries and funerals, paving and grading, blasting permits.

What keeps coming up

  • Cemeteries and funerals10Burial and the trades around it, at their heaviest as the city closed its cemeteries.
  • Paving and grading6Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
  • Blasting permits2Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
  • Streets closed for good2Streets the city stopped being a street — vacated for a building or a park.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 2010s4
    Streets by the Wholesale Produce Market proposed for closing · 2012
  2. 1990s1
    $622,661 released to rebuild three Chinatown alleyways · 1999
  3. 1980s2
    Innes Avenue and Milton I. Ross Street to be closed · 1981
  4. 1930s11
    Bodies to be removed from Calvary Cemetery within three years · 1936
  5. 1920s9
    Calvary Cemetery told to begin moving bodies within two years · 1924
  6. 1910s24
    City to take over Dolores Street between Twenty-first and Twenty-second · 1910
  7. 1900s2
    Wood Street sidewalks set at twelve feet · 1909

The most notable decisions

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