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Santa Rosa Ave

33 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Santa Rosa Ave, between 1912 and 1972, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about railroads and spur tracks, paving and grading, street lights.

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What keeps coming up

  • Railroads and spur tracks7Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Paving and grading2Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
  • Street lights2Lighting a street, block by block.
  • Parking2Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
  • PG&E and the utilities2The gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.

Decade by decade

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

  1. 1970s1
    Map approved for widening Santa Rosa Avenue north of San Jose · 1972
  2. 1950s2
    Morning meter charges dropped on San Jose and Santa Rosa Avenues · 1958
  3. 1930s4
    Slow signs on San Jose Avenue at Santa Rosa Avenue undone · 1931
  4. 1920s11
    Ornamental lamps ordered along Mission Street near Cotter Street · 1924
  5. 1910s15
    Southern Pacific gives a right of way for Santa Rosa Avenue · 1913

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