Sherman St
8 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Sherman St, between 1909 and 1970, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about blasting permits.
What keeps coming up
- Blasting permits2Permission to set off explosives at a named place — street cuts, foundations, tunnels — revocable and usually time-limited.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
The most notable decisions
Juvenile Court and detention home proposed on West Mission Street
Ordinance · proposed · 10 May 1909 ↗Genoa Place and Sherman Street set one-way
Resolution · 13 July 1970 ↗$18,000 to J. R. McElroy for improving Buchanan Street
Resolution · 17 December 1923 ↗James R. McElroy allowed to blast for grading on Buchanan Street
Resolution · 26 November 1923 ↗State Teachers College to move, freeing its block near Haight Street
Resolution · 24 April 1944 ↗Blocks on Herman and Berkshire streets to be renumbered
Departmental work · 1909 ↗James R. McElroy given ninety more days on Buchanan Street
Resolution · 30 June 1924 ↗
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